Richard Fidler

How on earth did you end up in Australia, Blue?

Do you think your time with Nureyev, I don't know, encouraged you to be able to make split decisions, follow your heart like that?

So where's home for you these days, Blue?

Do you still ever do any of those dance steps that Nureyev taught you?

Blue, what a wonderful story.

Thank you so much for being my guest on Conversations.

Simon Blue Robinson was my guest on Conversations today.

This conversation was produced by Meggie Morris and recorded on the lands of the Turrbal and Yagera peoples.

Our executive producer is Eliza Kirsch.

I'm Sarah Konoski.

Thanks for listening.

Somewhere in the lonely silence of the solar system, the Europa Clipper is on its way to investigate a beautiful icy moon of Jupiter's called Europa.

This is the largest spacecraft ever built by NASA.

It looks like a bundle of technology and machinery flanked by two huge wings.

Europa is fascinating to scientists and to people like me because it has water, which forms a thick crust of ice on its surface.

And having water, scientists think maybe, just maybe, just possibly, Europa might also have life swimming below all that ice.

Tracey Drain is here today.

Tracey is the chief engineer at NASA of this mission.

She's an aerospace engineer who's worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab for over two decades, working to develop spacecraft that boldly go where no human has gone before.

Tracey is in Australia for Brisbane's World Science Festival, and she's also a National Geographic Explorer.