NASA's New Horizons spacecraft provided the first close-up views of a Kuiper Belt contact binary during its January 1, 2019 flyby of 2014 MU69.
After suborbital flights from Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, space tourism will seek new horizons.
The White House budget proposal suggests canceling NASA missions including ExoMars, New Horizons, Juno, Mars Odyssey, and MAVEN.
The New Horizons team protested NASA's decision to transfer its mission to heliophysics after 2024, affecting its ability to perform future Kuiper Belt flybys.
NASA agreed to continue the New Horizons mission potentially through the end of the decade while conducting heliophysics research.
Alan Stern contributed to the nearly $1 billion New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
Stern was involved in the nearly $1 billion New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
Alan Stern was involved in the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, which cost almost $1 billion.
Alan Stern participated in the almost $1 billion New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
Alan Stern was part of the almost $1 billion New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
Alan Stern is the Principal Investigator for the NASA New Horizons mission.
The New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt had a budget of almost $1 billion.
Alan Stern will travel to Boston to lead a science team meeting for the NASA New Horizons mission.
Alan Stern was involved in the almost $1 billion New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
Stern was involved in the almost $1 billion New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
NASA spent $9,500,000 on the New Horizons mission in 2022 and proposed spending $9,700,000 on the mission in its fiscal year 2024 budget proposal.
NASA will operate New Horizons until the spacecraft exits the Kuiper Belt, which NASA expects around 2028 through 2029.
NASA requested $9,700,000 for the New Horizons mission in its fiscal year 2024 budget proposal.
The $9,700,000 requested for New Horizons represents less than 0.3% of NASA’s $3,380,000,000 planetary science budget.
NASA funded New Horizons through fiscal year 2024 as part of the planetary science division and required the mission to compete in a separate senior review for the heliophysics division for fiscal year 2025 and beyond.