When 60 Minutes' Hysteria Nearly Shot Down a NASA Mission to Saturn
When 60 Minutes’ Hysteria Nearly Shot Down a NASA Mission to Saturn David W. Brown © Provided by The Daily Beast NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute via Getty Few impediments could have been more severe. For a spacecraft to reach the Jovian system with enough speed to eventually achieve orbit around Europa, it had to either launch from a powerful rocket (which NASA lacked, limiting spacecraft to a space shuttle deployment) or be absurdly light (which the required radiation armor rendered impossible). JPL engineers dashed out hastily written equations in chalk before ...
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