The New Horizons probe launched on Thursday - two days behind schedule, but still in time to slingshot around Jupiter and arrive at Pluto by 2015. If there had been too much of a delay in the launch it would have taken another three years, and Pluto's atmosphere would probably have frozen, so all is good.
It is, of course, an unmanned probe - someone I know, when told it would take nine years to get to the destination, said 'I hope they have enough food'. This person was again more interested in food when the Huygens probe landed on Titan LOL.
Mmm, space exploration, one of my fave topics :)
Pauly
It is, of course, an unmanned probe - someone I know, when told it would take nine years to get to the destination, said 'I hope they have enough food'. This person was again more interested in food when the Huygens probe landed on Titan LOL.
Mmm, space exploration, one of my fave topics :)
Pauly
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