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Meet The Woman Who Guides NASA’s Juno Probe Through Jupiter’s Killer Radiation
On the night of July 4, 2016, scientists successfully manoeuvred a basketball court-sized probe into the orbit of the largest planet in the solar system. Some at the Florida launch cheered, some breathed a sigh of relief. But for NASA’s Heidi Becker, this could have been the mission’s end.