Jan. 14th, 2006

unclejimbo: (Stitch)
The New Horizons mission is due to launch on Tuesday. It's mission, to make the initial reconnaissance of Pluto/Charon and the Kuiper belt beyond that.

The launch is scheduled for 1:24 EST on Tuesday and you can watch the launch online or on NASA TV. Sadly, I'll be at work and won't be able to watch the show.

The down side, the probe won't get to Pluto until 2015... I'll be 51. *sigh*

I just wish they had the Internet around when they launched the Voyagers, I would have loved to have seen the raw data coming in from the encounters with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Look out, Pluto, here we come!

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