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Clipper is six months away from launch at NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena , California .
The mission to Europa has walked a long road from napkin to the clean room and soon, onto the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center .
The theory that Europa may harbor microbial life is enticing, provocative, and feels like an inquiry that once sat on the fringes of space exploration.
David Brown met with project scientist Robert Pappalardo at JPL .
Clipper, in orbit around Jupiter , will make 49 flybys of Europa at closest-approach altitudes as low as 16 miles ( 25 kilometers ) above the surface, over a different location during each flyby.
It will take half a decade to reach the Jupiter system, taking five and a half a year to launch.
The Europa Clipper spacecraft is larger than life and noticeably complex in design.
The discovery of life in Europa 's ocean would be a transformative moment for the human race and the beginning of a new age of science.
Clipper stands as the forerunner of this enterprise and the research it sends back could have paradigm shifting impact on the future of space exploration.
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