During my nearly four decades at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, I have designed missions to most of the planets in our solar system. It has been exciting and moving to watch as these missions returned close-up pictures of worlds we once saw only as fuzzy spots. But there's one experience in particular that stands out in my mind. It involved the ongoing Cassini-Huygens robotic mission to Saturn and its large moon, Titan, as well as a unique interaction with people from around the world.
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