I will be traveling for all of October, but may be able to drop in to SDC from time to time.<br /><br />Well, it's still looking good. Here is the latest news from the Mission Site:<br /><br />New Horizons Mission News <br />September 26, 2005 <br /><br /><b>New Horizons Begins Launch Preparations</b><br /><br />The New Horizons spacecraft arrived at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla., for final preparations and testing for the probe’s decade-long journey. It will be the first spacecraft to visit Pluto and its moon, Charon.<br /><br />New Horizons arrived Saturday at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo plane. The spacecraft is in a clean room at KSC. It is scheduled to launch on a Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket in January 2006. New Horizons recently completed four months of space-environment tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel, Md., where it was designed and built........<br /><br />............Following final launch approval, liftoff is scheduled for Jan. 11, 2006, during a two-hour launch window that opens at 2:07 p.m. EST. Launch windows are also available daily from Jan. 12 through Feb. 14, 2006. <br /><br />Full story at the
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