I’m going to Pluto

January 22nd, 2007

I had completely forgotten about filling in the form on the NASA site for the New Horizons mission to Pluto, but lo and behold there I am!

Myself and over 430,000 other names have been inscribed on a CD attached to the spacecraft, which is currently approaching Jupiter for a gravity assisted slingshot to the outer reaches of our Solar System. We’re due to arrive around July 2016.

Tags: cool, geek, science, space, surreal

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Vampire Bear

Posted Thursday, January 25th, 2007 at 2:00 PM | Permalink

Now that really is taking geekiness to another but would apparently exciting level! Enjoy the trip!

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I’m going to Pluto

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What is this place?

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Recent photos on flickr

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