How Do You Deliver a 7,000-Pound Spacecraft?

How was NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft packed and shipped from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to Kennedy Space Center in Florida? The mission’s lead engineer Kobie Boykins explains how the team made sure the 7,000-pound spacecraft would be safe while it traveled first on a semitruck then flew to Florida on a United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster III. Free to watch on Dr.Doc Kids.

Courtesy of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on YouTube. Watch on YouTube ↗

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