https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aky9FFj4ybE&feature=youtu.be
On July 14th, 2015. The first spacecraft ever to reach Pluto will flyby the world and onward to the Kuiper Belt. We will see for the first time what the surface really looks like, and its moon Charon. Find out what its atmosphere is comprised of and hopefully a whole bunch of other things before we lose the window to run many of the tests necessary.
This is history in the making folks, and we're going to live it.
October 3rd, 1942. The V2 rocket A-4 was the first object humans put into space.
In 1946 we started scientific research on cosmic radiation, and took the first images of earth from space. A grainy black and white photo. We were still suborbital.
Sputnik 1 flew on October 4th, 1957. The first object to reach orbit and circle the earth.
And it wasn't even 4 years from then in 1961 the Russians put the first man in space.
1969 we landed on the freaking Moon. Still our greatest accomplishment to date in space.
Since then we have put a few landers on Venus and Mars. Thrown up a few manned space stations and more satellites then you could shake a stick at. We've flown at least 1 mission, and visited every planet in the solar system with the exception of Pluto via probe. Even though it is a Dwarf Planet now, and not even the biggest. That's all going to change next month. 73 years after we first threw a rocket in to space because we could. 69 years since we started real scientific exploration. We will see the farthest we ever have with clarity. And I'm excited at what we're gonna find.
If you want to learn more about the New Horizons Mission. Have some links.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons#Images_of_Jupiter_flyby
