Alex Carson
On October 14, 2024, the world watched as a massive SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket thundered into the Florida sky, a brilliant symbol of humanity’s relentless ambition. Onboard was the Europa Clipper, NASA’s five-billion-dollar marvel of engineering, beginning a 1.8-billion-mile journey to Jupiter’s mysterious moon, Europa.
▬Contents of this video▬
00:00 – Intro
01:21 – A Mission Born from Chaos
03:38 – Into the Abyss
06:08 – The Fatal Flaw
07:58 – A Five-Billion-Dollar Gamble
09:34 – Outro
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Publicly, it was a flawless start to a historic quest to find an alien ocean and perhaps, the ingredients for life. But behind the scenes, the triumphant launch masked a frantic, desperate secret. For years, the mission had been plagued by political battles and budgetary chaos. And just months before liftoff, engineers had discovered a fundamental, potentially catastrophic flaw sealed deep within the spacecraft’s core.
What was supposed to be a mission of discovery had become an unprecedented gamble.
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