NASA picks Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission, but funding still unclear

NASA has selected a Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission to proceed to preliminary design studies, with the goal of a launch in 2006 - if Congress and the Bush Administration approve the budget. The mission, called New Horizons: Shedding Light on Frontier Worlds, is led by principal investigator S. Alan Stern...

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