New Horizons Flyby
NASA’s New Horizons is the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close. Use the resources below to make the most out of this historic event – humankind’s first close up view of this cold, unexplored world in our solar system.
New Horizons …
- is the fastest space mission ever launched
- traveled the farthest to reach its primary science target
- is the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt
Details
- NASA New Horizons News
- Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory New Horizons News
- NASA TV Coverage
- Weekly post-encounter broadcasts begin 21 July – 11 August 2015
- Flyby Simulation: Eyes on the Solar System
Events
Find Events Near You
Watch Online or on NASA TV
- NASA TV
- Pluto Encounter NASA Televised Events Plan
(as of June 24, 2015, All Times Eastern Daylight Time | Events and times subject to change)
Social Media
- Join the conversation:
- @NASANewHorizons (Twitter)
- New Horizons (Facebook)
- Video Channel (YouTube)
- Archived Reddit New Horizons Team AMA | 4 Feb 2015
- Archived Google Hangout Countdown to Pluto! | 19 June 2015
About the Mission
- New Horizons Pluto Flyby Press Kit – July 2015
- The Year of Pluto Documentary
- NASA New Horizons Mission Homepage
- Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory New Horizons Homepage
- NASA New Horizons Fact Sheet
- Johns Hopkins New Horizons Fact Sheet
- Mission Guide
What’s Up Podcasts – Pluto
Skilled observers should be able to spot Pluto with a telescope in dark skies.
- What’s Up – June 2015: The dwarf planet Pluto, largest of the Kuiper Belt objects, will be near the moon on Friday 5 June 2015.
- What’s Up – July 2015
Why isn’t Pluto Considered a Planet Anymore?
The dwarf planet debate continues:
- What is a Planet?
- What is a Planet? Video
- Space Shorts: What is a Dwarf Planet?
- Is Pluto a Planet?: An alternate view.
More on Pluto & the Kuiper Belt^
- Pluto in a Minute Series
- About Pluto
- What We Currently Know About Pluto
- About Dwarf Planets
- About the Kuiper Belt
Pluto For Youth
Classroom Materials
- How to Make NASA’s Pluto Flyby a ‘Teachable Moment’
- New Horizons Educator Guide
- Pluto Bookmark / Ruler (PDF, 847 KB)
- SpaceMath@Pluto
More Missions Studying Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons will have the support of other spacecraft during its historic Pluto flyby, with observations from their outposts across the solar system.