1.19.2006

New Horizons: Mission to Pluto



After being delayed yesterday due to the weather the mission to the "planet" Pluto is under way! If you wondering why I put planet in quotes click here. There has been a debate going on for sometime if Pluto should have the privilege of being called a planet. I'm still on the fence, and I think the New Horizons mission will supply the information needed to make a better judgement.
"New Horizons is the first mission in NASA's New Frontiers program of medium-class planetary mission. It will be the first spacecraft to visit Pluto and its moon, Charon." - nasa.gov
Lets hope it makes it! ETA is 2015...

-KJW

3 comments:

HLN said...

Way cool. What a long strange trip that would be and a little lonely too.

I was just thinking that by the time we hear anything from it my baby will be 9 years old!!

LJN said...

Im thinkin maybe the "Birds" will win a Super Bowl by then!

Buoy Stretcher said...

i'll be turning 40 in 2015, holy #$%&...

about as good of a chance as the browns making the playoffs!!!think i'll have to convert to watching ice skating, no let dows there... :)