NASA's Proposed 2018 Budget Could Push Europa Mission to Late 2020s

NASA's Proposed 2018 Budget Could Push Europa Mission to Late 2020s

Congress will have to loosen the purse strings if it still wants NASA to launch a flyby mission to Jupiter's ocean-harboring moon Europa by 2022, agency officials said. The budget proposal, which was released yesterday (May 23), envisions giving the mission a total of $1.63 billion from 2018 through 2022.