Going Where No NASA Mission Video Has Gone Before

Editor’s note: The New Horizons Project has a rather new cool video online – one that is a radical departure from the pretty, but somewhat sterile animations that NASA picks – videos that often have dorky narration and ill-fitting music. This video is very reminiscent of the promos that the Star Trek series “Enterprise” used and the ones now being used to promote the remastered episodes from the original Star Trek series. Mike Buckley, Kerri Beisser and others at APL put this video together. The person behind the New Horizons mission is PI Alan Stern – soon to be the new Science Mission Directorate Associate Administrator at NASA Headquarters. Are videos like this a preview of things to come? A link to the video is below.

Look at this Star Trek Enterprise promo and you will see what I mean