Say hello to Pluto, the first spacecraft to reach Pluto on the outer edge of the Solar System will swing by tomorrow at about 45,000 km/hr.
The New Horizons spacecraft will be carrying cameras, 5 experiments, and the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluti, and the only American to have discovered a planet.
In the 80s, while I was the science consultant at the Los Angeles County of Education, I organized a symposium for teachers on space science. Our keynote speaker was Clyde Tombaugh.
It was a grand night in the presence of such a science notable. Sail on Mr Tombaugh … sail on.