NASA’s highly-anticipated Europa Clipper Mission launched on October 14 with US Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s poem “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa” engraved onto one the spacecraft’s vault plates.
Listen to a recent recording of Limón reading her poem along with a reading of it in Spanish by translator Roque Rivera. Afterwards, the two reflect on their processes and this unique and expansive project.
Network members might also be interested in this recorded Library event in which Limón read her poem publicly for the first time and spoke with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and NASA officials about "space exploration, poetry, and sending inspirational messages into space."
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