Chasing New Horizons by Alan Stern
Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
A firsthand account of the decade-plus effort to design, build, fund and fly a spacecraft to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, blending technical detail with political and personal drama; it follows the scientific goals, engineering hurdles, budget fights and NASA bureaucracy, the persistence of a small team through a long cruise, and the 2015 flyby that revealed a surprisingly complex, geologically active Pluto and its moons, followed by exploration of a more distant Kuiper Belt object, all framed as an argument for bold planetary exploration.
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- 2018
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