
Oct 1, 2024
NASA has launched countless spacecraft into space, but occassionally, those spacecrafts include human-made art like poems or music. Why? On October 10, 2024 NASA is launching a spacecraft to explore what could be a vast ocean beneath the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon, Europa. As part of the mission, NASA asked US Poet Laureate Ada Limón to write a poem that would serve as a message from planet Earth to be engraved on the outside of the spaceship. On this special episode, we let kids from all across the country ask their questions about the mission, the poem, and Jupiter's ocean world. The kids ask their questions directly to NASA scientist Dr. Cynthia Phillips and Poet Laureate Ada Limón and the result is a humorous and deep investigation of why poetry belongs in space and why there might be life on this faraway moon.