Saving New Horizons
These are the types of discoveries we stand to lose if New Horizons is canceled. Shutting down the spacecraft would imply abandoning our greatest window into the outer Photo voltaic System — one already constructed, paid for, and dealing easily. Worlds would go unexplored, and mysteries would stay unsolved.
“We’re the one spacecraft on the market,” Stern mentioned. “There’s nothing else deliberate to return this fashion.”
However the price of cancellation wouldn’t simply be scientific. All of the labor that went into designing the mission and constructing the spacecraft, the years spent wringing significant measurements and exquisite photos out of it, all of the individuals who devoted their careers to New Horizons, all those that had been impressed by it, everybody who stood up and spoke out time and again to say that this mission mattered to them — all would really feel the loss.
Now, as ever, The Planetary Society is standing by New Horizons. We’re encouraging Congress to reject the White Home’s plan and organizing methods you’ll be able to present elected officers that area science and exploration matter. Whether or not we’re sending postcards, petitions, or Invoice Nye himself to the Capitol, The Planetary Society will advocate for this mission and all different science tasks going through pointless termination.
If sufficient folks take motion, there may be nonetheless time to save NASA science.
