New Horizons: Fastest Spacecraft Ever Created to Explore Pluto

The fastest spacecraft ever created, NASA's New Horizons will speed past Pluto on July 14, 2015 - 50 years to the day after humans first explored Mars with NASA's Mariner 4 on July 14, 1965. The new spacecraft will beam back high resolution imagery and invaluable scientific data of Pluto's surface for the first time in human history. Members of the National Space Society, a non-profit devoted to accelerate humankind's pursuits beyond Earth, have honored the historic New Horizons mission by commissioning Stockholm-based digital artist Erik Wernquist to create this video.

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00:00:04 it has been over 3,000 days since we left Earth we're now almost 3 billion miles away from home out here where the sun is distant and faint is a place no one has ever seen before Pluto and its system of moons the farthest worlds ever to be explored by [Music]

00:00:41 humankind since the beginning of History the points of light in the sky have captivated us particularly those special ones who mysteriously seem to wander we call them planets and upon learning that our planet is only one of many in our solar system how could merely observing these points of light from home ever have been

00:01:14 enough half a century ago we began the exploration of all the planets making ever more distant Journeys each new world from Mercury to Neptune revealed its own star smartling complexity character and unimagined [Applause] [Music] beauty [Music]

00:02:06 as we now approach the Pluto system reaching farther again this year we are about to complete the historic first era of Planetary Exploration who knows what wonders await us at these New [Music] Horizons