| ▲ | jvm___ 2 days ago | |
If we launched a second New Horizons when the last one passed Pluto, the second one would already have passed Pluto as well. Crazy to think how much time has passed since that flyby. Also, one of the program managers was on The Moth podcast describing the panic when new Horizons rebooted days before the flyby. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft launched on January 19, 2006, and performed its historic flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015. This journey took 3,463 days (approximately 9.5 years). 3,932 days July 14, 2015–April 19, 2026 | ||