Getting NASA’s Pluto mission off the ground took blood, sweat and years
Alan Stern dishes about the new book ‘Chasing New Horizons’
![Pluto](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/050118_LG_alan-stern_feat.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
LOVE ALWAYS, PLUTO New Horizons took this image of Pluto on July 14, 2015, when the spacecraft was 768,000 kilometers away from the dwarf planet’s surface — and 7.5 billion kilometers away from Earth. The journey to get the mission off the ground was a labor of love.
NASA, APL, SwRI