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| Pluto Mission a Go! Initial Funding Secured |
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 After an arduous political battle, initial funding for a NASA mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt of frozen objects at the outskirts of our solar system received formal approval when President Bush quietly signed an omnibus bill last week, SPACE.com has learned.Pluto is the only planet in our solar system yet to be visited by a spacecraft. "It's like the old days," said Alan Stern, principal investigator for the mission, called New Horizons. "We are going to the frontier." Stern, of the Southwest Research in Boulder, Colo., said he was a boy the last time NASA launched a mission that was so entirely new in destination, scope and scientific possibilities. "We're going back to the roots of the space program," he said. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pluto_horizons_030225.html |
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