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LunaSea

(2,894 posts) Thu Jul 9, 2015, 06:24 PM Jul 2015

Plutowatching

Found a nice collection of links for keeping up with the upcoming activities-

All at this link-
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/06240556-what-to-expect-new-horizons-pluto.html

Key places to watch for New Horizons information:

Twitter: @NASANewHorizons (official NASA feed) and @NewHorizons2015 (run by principal investigator Alan Stern)
New Horizons LORRI raw image release page at APL
New Horizons website at APL (has more background) and New Horizons website at NASA.gov (faster with news)
New Horizons Launch Press Kit and Flyby Press Kit (PDF) have detailed information on systems and instruments
NASA TV for scheduled briefings (some of which may show up on NASA TV's channel 2)
Enthusiast discussion forum: Unmannedspaceflight.com, which is maintaining a New Horizons FAQ page

New NASA briefing on the 15th-
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-announces-updated-television-coverage-media-activities-for-pluto-flyby

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Plutowatching (Original Post) LunaSea Jul 2015 OP

NASA has daily updates jakeXT Jul 2015 #1

The planetary link is really informative. gvstn Jul 2015 #2

Damn, this is exciting! lastlib Jul 2015 #3

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)

1. NASA has daily updates

Reply to LunaSea (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2015, 06:21 AM

Jul 2015

https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision/videos

gvstn

(2,805 posts)

2. The planetary link is really informative.

Reply to LunaSea (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2015, 02:55 PM

Jul 2015

Gives lots of detail that I have not seen before. I enjoyed it. I will be going through that site to see what else they have to say.

Thank you very much!

lastlib

(23,248 posts)

3. Damn, this is exciting!

Reply to LunaSea (Original post)

Sat Jul 11, 2015, 05:08 PM

Jul 2015

In my lifetime, we have gone from seeing celestial bodies only through our best telescopes to actually visiting them, and even walking on one! The early Mariner missions, Viking, Pioneer 10 & 11, Voyager 1 & 2, Apollo, now New Horizons--what a time to be alive! No matter what else we do in space, those of us alive since Oct. 1957 will have the privilege of being the first to experience the wondrous discoveries of all these missions! (I was born a week before Sputnik I launched.)

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