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But in crafting a poem for the Europa Clipper launch, the U.S. Poet Laureate focused her affections toward Earth itself. Here, read Limón’s thoughts on the poem, the launch, and the role of ...

The Mexican American's new poem will be engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper mission spacecraft and travel 1.8 billion miles — and the public can send their names along.

The poem and the names will be like a message in a bottle, traveling billions of miles as the mission investigates whether the ocean thought to lie beneath Europa's icy crust could support life.

Add your name to a poem that will be sent to space NASA logos are seen in the conference room of the Astronaut Crew Quarters (ACQ) at Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on June 14 ...

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón reads her poem for the Europa Clipper mission during an event with NASA on Thursday, June 1, 2023, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

As part of the “Message in a Bottle” campaign, names received before 10:59 p.m. CT on Dec. 31, 2023, will be stenciled onto a microchip, along with the poem, which is entitled “In Praise of ...

The words will be engraved on the Europa Clipper spacecraft, set to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in October 2024 on a journey to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa.

Echoing the poem’s form, the speaker implores this someday-pioneer, whom she clearly loves though she will never see him, not to sever his connection with the earth, but to look back as he looks ...