The New Horizons Mission blasted off toward Pluto in 2006; it’s on course to arrive in Pluto’s neighborhood in 2015. Mission leader Alan Stern discusses the journey of the spacecraft, and why he thinks Pluto is still a planet. Plus, the mission to get Pluto on a commemorative stamp.
Segment Guests
Alan Stern
Alan Stern is Principal Investigator for NASA’s New Horizons mission, and a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute. He’s also co-author of Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Picador, 2018). He’s based in Boulder, Colorado.
Dan Durda
Dan Durda is a principal scientist at the Southwest Research Institute. He is based in San Antonio, Texas.