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Ada Limon: A Poem For NASA
The poem that will be sent into space.
In the Studio follows US poet laureate Ada Lim贸n as she crafts an original poem dedicated to NASA鈥檚 Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter鈥檚 icy moon. Her poem will be engraved on the Clipper spacecraft, which will launch in 2024 and travel 1.8 billion miles to reach Europa - a journey that will last six years.
We follow Ada鈥檚 creative process over several months, from her first meetings with the NASA team, through many drafts of the poem and a visit to NASA鈥檚 jet propulsion laboratory in California to see the Europa Clipper under construction. In this update, we hear the finished poem
