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OUTER SPACE. The final frontier. And the search for life beyond planet earth is a distant concept--for most. But for Dr. Joe Mills, an internationally recognized nuclear engineer, it is a way of life. Dr. Mills is vice president and program manager of the Boeing Company's Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) effort, which is searching for signs of extraterrestrial life on the three ice-covered moons of Jupiter--Callisto, Ganymede and Europa.

As part of NASA's initiative to revolutionize space exploration, the JIMO team, headed by Mills, will study technology options for the development and implementation of a nuclear-powered spacecraft. If successful, the spacecraft ...

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