Simple Ideas Can Have A Long Term Impact

Meet the New Horizons Pluto Pals!

“New Horizons wasn’t the only voyage launched on January 19, 2006 – this week we welcome the “Pluto Pals” to the New Horizons team, five kids who were born on the same day our spacecraft embarked on its historic journey the outer solar system. The idea for the club came to New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern last year as he scanned news coverage of the spacecraft’s launch. “I saw a fantastic Florida Today image of two boys watching the launch,” he said. “It made me think it would be fun to follow some children who would grow up during our 9 1/2 year trip to Pluto.”

New Horizons Mission to Begin Pluto Encounter April 12th, 2015 in Salute to Early Space Explorers

“Yuri’s Night is proud to announce that New Horizons, the NASA spacecraft currently en route to the ninth planet, Pluto, and the Kuiper Belt, will begin its final encounter with the Pluto system on April 12, 2015.”