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New Horizons

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New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe that was launched in January 2006 on a NASA mission to study Pluto, its moons and the Kuiper Belt, performing flybys of Jupiter and its moons. The probe was built by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI).

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20 Feb, 2003

Funding approved

George W. BushKuiper Belt SystemNASAPlutoFundraisingLaw approved0 Comments

After a hard political battle, President Bush signs an omnibus bill which includes $110 million in initial funding for NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt System. The funding allows the team to proceed with the final design of the probe.

It’s like the old days. We are going to the frontier. We’re going back to the roots of the space program.