From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Jeff Findley speculated:   
   > In article <7a9063b4-d1c6-4f3b-a2c4-76d7dbcf1727n@googlegroups.com>,   
   > dumpster4@hotmail.com says...   
   >>   
   >> SpaceX lands NASA launch contract for mission to Jupiter's moon Europa:   
   >>   
   >> "Elon Musk's private rocket company SpaceX was awarded a $178 million launch   
   >> services contract for NASA's first mission focusing on Jupiter's icy moon   
   >> Europa  and whether it may host conditions suitable for life, the space   
   >> agency said on  Friday.   
   >>   
   >> The Europa Clipper mission is due for blastoff in October 2024 on a Falcon   
   >> Heavy  rocket owned by Musk's company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp,   
   >> from  NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said in a statement   
   >> posted online.   
   >>   
   >> The contract marked NASA's latest vote of confidence in the Hawthorne,   
   >> California-based company, which has carried several cargo payloads and   
   >> astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA in recent years."   
   >>   
   >> See:   
   >>   
   >> https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/spacex-lands-nasa-l   
   unch-contract-mission-jupiters-moon-europa-2021-07-24/   
   >   
   > This was a logical decision to make.  SLS is going to be very busy with   
   > Artemis missions and there was some issue with launching it on SLS that   
   > I can't seem to remember right now (need more coffee).   
      
   Vibration?  I think I saw that in passim when headline scanning, or as   
   a one liner in Bergen's /Rocket Report/.   
      
   /dps   
      
   --   
   "I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it"   
      _Roughing It_, Mark Twain   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)