Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto Audiobook (Free)

This audiobook is the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players.

On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. A lot more than 3 billion kilometers from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft known as New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 mls per hour, concentrating its instruments over the long mystical icy worlds from the Pluto program, and then, just like about Going after New Horizons: In the Epic First Mission to Pluto quickly, continued on its journey out in to the beyond.

Nothing like this has occurred inside a generation-a raw exploration of new worlds unrivaled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune-and nothing quite like it is planned to occur ever again. The photos that New Horizons sent back to Globe graced leading pages of papers on all 7 continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than 2 billion hits in the times surrounding the flyby. At the same time when so many think that our most historical achievements are before, probably the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted not only been successful in 2015 but made background and captured the world’s imagination.

How did this happen? Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this phenomenal objective: of their decades-long commitment and persistence; from the political fights within and beyond NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and journey the objective; and of the programs for New Horizons’ following encounter, 1 billion mls previous Pluto in 2019.

Told from your insider’s perspective of objective leader Dr. Alan Stern while others on New Horizons, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting tale of scientific discovery, and of just how much we human beings can achieve when people centered on a fantasy interact toward their incredible goal.