{"id":13494,"date":"2010-03-29T13:14:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/new-horizons-on-the-way-to-pluto\/"},"modified":"2010-03-29T13:14:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T13:14:08","slug":"new-horizons-on-the-way-to-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/new-horizons-on-the-way-to-pluto.php","title":{"rendered":"New Horizons On The Way To Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Launched on January 19, 2006, New Horizons robotic spacecraft left the Earth at the fastest launch speed ever recorded for a man-made object – 58,536 km\/h (36,373 mph).  It will reach Pluto July 14, 2015.  How fast is New Horizons going?  It took only 9 hours to reach the moon.  Let me rephrase that… IT TOOK ONLY NINE HOURS<\/em><\/span><\/strong> TO REACH THE MOON.  That’s called hauling the mail.  Yeah, I know what else it’s hauling, but this is a family site.  It’s not the fastest spacecraft ever launched (that would be Voyager I), but it did blaze off the Earth the fastest of any ever launched.<\/p>

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New Horizons Liftoff, Image NASA\/KSC<\/p><\/div>

So… New Horizons will fly by and take pictures of Pluto, right?  Well, sure, but it’ll do more than that.  Considering it’ll have only one fly by, then head into the Kuiper Belt, I think the mission objectives are pretty great.  Straight from the New Horizons web site:<\/p>

New Horizons: <\/strong> Mission<\/strong> Objectives <\/strong><\/p>