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20060120 Friday January 20, 2006

 My family is on its way to Pluto...

Well, not exactly, but we got to put our names on the 'New Horizons' spacecraft that successfully launched yesterday evening. Well done!

I thought this was quite a good away to capture the imagination of kids. The New Horizons website ran a page where you could submit your name for inclusion on a CD which would be loaded onto the spaceship before launch. That CD with our names on it, (along with 430,000 others!) is now somewhere in interplanetary space between here and Jupiter...

My kids loved watching the launch on the net (no TV coverage mores the pity) and now we have to wait. 'New Horizons' will go past Jupiter in early 2007, but won't reach Pluto until 2015. By then my two sons will be 15 and 12 - scary!

( Jan 20 2006, 09:07:00 AM GMT / Jan 20 2006, 09:07:00 AM GMT ) Permalink Comments [2]
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Heh that's pretty cool.

Posted by tony:frosty on January 20, 2006 at 10:20 AM GMT #

What type of CD did they use? There have been some CD longevity questions, so I was wondering if the CD would still be readable in 9 or so years (the journey time to Pluto)...? Otherwise it's a pretty cool idea. -scf

Posted by scf on January 20, 2006 at 02:39 PM GMT #

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