After decades of planning and a 9-year journey, the New Horizons spacecraft will reach Pluto on July 14, 2015, providing our first close-up view of the this “non-planet object” and its five moons.
We'll explore some of the basic steps in the engineering design process needed to send spacecraft to other planets. Audience members will take an active role in selecting a mission and making spacecraft design choices and later learn whether their mission choices led to failure or success. Learn about the New Horizon mission, Pluto, the outer solar system and more.
Glastonbury Planetarium
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Glastonbury, CT 06033