The Woman Who Helped Send a Spacecraft to Europa, Jupiter's Icy Moon | The New Yorker

A frozen “ocean world” is the likeliest place in the solar system to foster alien life. Louise Prockter and her colleagues persuaded NASA to send a mission there.
Just after noon on Monday, a SpaceX rocket stood on the same launchpad that once sent men to the moon. Hurricane Milton had recently ripped across Florida, whipping up winds of a hundred miles per hour in Cape Canaveral, but now the skies were a featureless blue. From a restricted viewing area not far away, Louise Prockter, a […]
The Woman Who Helped Send a Spacecraft to Europa, Jupiter's Icy Moon | The New Yorker