i just wanted to post something that i think is really positive, about the new horizons space mission to pluto.

for those of you that don't know there is a spaceship thats flying to pluto it gets there in like 10 years or something, isn't it fascinating? what a world like that must be like?

i always read books about the planets when i was young and i remember when they reached neptune and it was on the news in 1989.

can you imagine how lonely the poor thing must be!?

i get sent emails by nasa every now and again, i just wanted to share it, its something that im really enthusiastic about, here is the email..

New Horizons to Voyager: Happy Anniversary!

On the 30th anniversary of Voyager 1’s launch, the New Horizons mission salutes its predecessor on the path toward the solar system’s planetary frontier – and beyond.

“As compatriots in the historic first reconnaissance of unexplored planets, New Horizons salutes the awe-inspiring success of Voyager in opening up the middle zone of our solar system – the realm of the giant planets,” says New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern. “Now we carry the banner forward to open up the solar system’s third zone, where Pluto, Charon and their kindred dwarf planets orbit. In the coming years, Voyager will continue to explore the fringes of the Sun’s heliosphere and move into interstellar space, and New Horizons will cross the great gulf of the solar system to reach Pluto in 2015. Go Voyager, Go New Horizons!”

For the full story, visit http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/090507.htm.


New Horizons is the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt of rocky, icy objects beyond. Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of NASA Headquarters, leads a mission team that includes the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute, Ball Aerospace Corporation, the Boeing Company, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford University, KinetX, Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, University of Colorado, the U.S. Department of Energy, and a number of other firms, NASA centers and university partners. For more information on the mission, visit http://pluto.jhuapl.edu.




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That is cool, indeed! However, I think it may need to be in Science, not sci-fi.. Cheers for that.

Yeah very cool FC I loved it when I saw the pictures of Mars from the rover. And the pictures of the comet striking Saturn [at least I think it was Saturn]
Our sloar system amazes me I would really like to see pictures in high resolution of all the moons.