Pluto Flyby Mission Powered by Plutonium

Posted on Jul.07, 2015 in plutonium, space exploration by Steven Aftergood

News of the Earth these days is such that one welcomes news from elsewhere, especially when it concerns a prospect as spectacular as the impending flyby of Pluto by the NASA spacecraft New Horizons that will take place on July 14. In reality, of course, New Horizons also represents news from Earth, having been built by humans and launched from Cape Canaveral in January 2006. Moreover, the New Horizons probe is not simply a technological […]http://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2015/07/new-horizons-pu/