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Hoagland contributor, robert kelly contributor, rob brezsny contributor, dana wilde contributor encompassing astr. Rewriting the playbook on pluto richard binzel is a professor of planetary science and joint professor of aerospace engineering at the massachusetts institute of technology, as well as a member of the original pluto underground that struggled for more than two decades to bring a pluto mission from dream to reality. One year ago, nasa s new horizons mission made history by exploring pluto and its moons giving humankind our first real look at this fascinating world on the frontier of our solar system. Below is an excerpt from chasing new horizons picador, 2018, a new book cowritten by stern and grinspoon that traces the many obstacles faced by nasas new horizons mission to pluto both. Atlantic books, but also titles with harper, doubleday, sierra club books, and j. These essays explore the meaning of pluto as a mythological, astrological, and psychological phenomenon. Jul 14, 2015 there is a very small possibility that new horizons could be lost as it flies through the pluto system. Along the way, the book takes us into the inner workings of a space mission to see how it was funded, planned, designed, built, and.
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