In July 2028, humanity will send a flying laboratory named Dragonfly on a six-and-a-half-year crossing to Titan, Saturn's moon — a world where methane rains from nitrogen skies and hydrocarbon seas lap against shores of water ice. Powered by the slow decay of plutonium and guided by logic written on Earth years in advance, the rotorcraft will navigate an alien atmosphere autonomously, landing and relaunching dozens of times to ask how far carbon chemistry can travel toward complexity without ever being called life. It is a mission shaped not by the certainty of discovery, but by the discipline