New Horizons is NASA's historic mission to explore the Pluto system and the Kuiper Belt. The fastest spacecraft ever launched, New Horizons left Earth on 19 January 2006. It made the first exploration of the Pluto system - 3 billion miles from Earth - in the summer of 2015, culminating with a highly successful flyby inside the orbits of all five of Pluto's moons on July 14th. Dr. Alan Stern, the Principal Investigator of New Horizons, will describe the history of the mission, the encounter with planet Pluto, and the major scientific discoveries made to date.
Dr. Alan Stern is a planetary scientist, space program executive, aerospace consultant, and author. He leads NASA's New Horizons mission that successfully explored the Pluto system and is now exploring the Kuiper Belt - the farthest worlds ever explored by a space mission.
This talk is the 9th Annual R. Jack and Forest Lynn Biard Cosmology and Astrophysics Lecture. It is free and open to all, including kids.
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