NASA is preparing to launch one of its most ambitious space missions to date: the Europa Clipper. Set to travel nearly 1.8 billion miles from Earth, the spacecraft will explore Europa, an icy moon orbiting Jupiter,

NASA is poised to launch Europa Clipper, a $5.2 billion mission to Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, as early as October 10. The spacecraft will blast off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. It will study Europa, a possible home for extraterrestrial life, through a series of flybys after reaching Jupiter in 2030.

Coming up next week, on october 10th, spacex's falcon heavy will be lifting off from cape canaveral with one of nasa's largest space crafts ever built called eu

Nasa is doing just that: launching a spacecraft on October 10 to Europa, a moon of Jupiter holding twice the water of all Earth’s oceans combined. Europa’s ocean is between 60 and 150 kilometres deep and is hidden beneath an outer shell of ice that’s 15 to 25 kilometres thick.