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NASA hands SpaceX contract for first mission to Jupiter s moon Europa Published  article SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses on the red carpet of the Axel Springer Award 2020 on December 01, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images) launch services contract for the Earth s first mission to conduct detailed investigations of Europa.  The Europa Clipper mission is set for October 2024 and NASA said in a Friday release that the spacecraft will launch on a Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  The contract award is The world – discovered first by famed astronomer Galileo Galilei – shows strong evidence for an ocean of salty water beneath the planet s crust, thought to contain twice as much water as Earth’s oceans combined.

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