Funding Approved for Pluto/Kuiper Probe

azpenguin writes "While we discuss the acheivements of the now-silent Pioneer 10, Congress has apporved funding for the "New Horizons" mission to send a probe to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Space.com has the story here. NASA had actually fought the idea, but Congress approved the money anyway. Wonder if in 12 years (when the probe is supposed to reach Pluto) the public will be as fascinated with the pictures coming back as much as with the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft." In related news, dalewj writes "Seems the team at JPL will discontinue operations on the Galileo Space probe to Jupiter after extended the mission three times. Galileo has been in space since 1989 and has some amazing findings and pictures available on the JPL website. Truly NASA and JPL's best effort to date."

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Re:We dont' need a CHERYNOBL in space!

[DrMorpheus]

Sure, that's why everyone who handles plutonium either does so wearing hazmat suits or remotely via robotic arms. 'Cause it so harmless. You are a brainless twit.

Oh, and the link you gave is little more than some half-wit's pro-atomic power website. It provides no independent references to the validity of it's claims or to the supposed challenge given to Ralph Nader. Tell you what, I'll take this "Dr." Cohen's challenge and ingest twice the amount of caffeine as his ingested plutonium. Doubt he'll take me up on the offer though.