Dr. Alan Stern, the principal investigator of the New Horizons Mission to Pluto and the Extended Mission to the Kuiper Belt will join the entire Editorial Staff of Astronomy Magazine tonight February 4th on the occasion of the 115th birthday of the discover of Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, for an engaging Q&A session with David H. Levy and David J. Eicher.
The New Horizons spacecraft launched on January 19, 2006 – beginning its odyssey to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. New Horizons was the first mission to Pluto, completing the space-age reconnaissance of the planets that started 50 years earlier. It was also the first mission to explore the solar system's recently-discovered "third zone," the region beyond the giant planets called the Kuiper Belt.
The program is free to the public and gets started tonight at 7:00 p.m. Central. at. You can also watch on YouTube, Twitch, and other channels by visiting http://www.explorescientific.com/live
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