New Horizons - Tom's cruise
Fri Feb 10, 2006 at 11:31 UTC
New Horizons continues to do well in flight - more than 99% of the journey to Pluto lies ahead, but the team has retired a great deal of risk by getting a good launch and successfully checking out most of the spacecraft's basic functions. In this week's "PI Perspective" column, Alan Stern covers some of the key activities planned in the weeks to come - and reflects on the upcoming phase of the mission named after the first New Horizons project manager.
