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As fast as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is heading toward Pluto, the drive to honor this historic exploration of the ninth planet is speeding toward its finish. Less than a week remains to put your name on the petition supporting an effort for the U.S. Postal Service to commemorate Pluto and New Horizons on a postage stamp.
In just over a month since the drive was announced, more than 10,000 people have signed the online petition. But mission leads would like to have many more signatures before they close out the list on March 13 – the 82nd anniversary of the announcement of Pluto’s discovery by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh.
Articles and support for the stamp drive have come from Astronomy, Space.com, Discover’s “Bad Astronomy” blog, The Planetary Society, the National Space Society, MSNBC’s Cosmic Log and many others. With these highly appreciated endorsements spreading the word across the space science universe, signatures have come in from across the U.S. as well as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Poland and other nations.
“Thanks to all who have signed on and are helping to make this happen!” says New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern. “We hope you’ll keep telling your friends to sign on, and ask them to tell their friends to tell their friends to sign. Post it on Facebook, change your profile picture to the stamp, Tweet about it, e-mail it to family members, and send it around your workplace. And if you haven’t signed on yet, hurry – March 13 is just a week away!”
Launched in January 2006, New Horizons is currently 2.1 billion miles from home, flying some 34,000 miles per hour toward a July 2015 encounter with Pluto and its moons, which are just over 3 billion miles from Earth. The mission team started the formal stamp proposal last month, knowing the USPS requires proposals three years or longer before an actual stamp can result.
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"New Horizons Stamp Drive Completes a 10K – and Keeps Going!"
March 7th, 2012
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"New Horizons Stamp Drive Completes a 10K – and Keeps Going!"
March 7th, 2012
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As fast as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is heading toward Pluto, the drive to honor this historic exploration of the ninth planet is speeding toward its finish. Less than a week remains to put your name on the petition supporting an effort for the U.S. Postal Service to commemorate Pluto and New Horizons on a postage stamp.
In just over a month since the drive was announced, more than 10,000 people have signed the online petition. But mission leads would like to have many more signatures before they close out the list on March 13 – the 82nd anniversary of the announcement of Pluto’s discovery by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh.
Articles and support for the stamp drive have come from Astronomy, Space.com, Discover’s “Bad Astronomy” blog, The Planetary Society, the National Space Society, MSNBC’s Cosmic Log and many others. With these highly appreciated endorsements spreading the word across the space science universe, signatures have come in from across the U.S. as well as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Poland and other nations.
“Thanks to all who have signed on and are helping to make this happen!” says New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern. “We hope you’ll keep telling your friends to sign on, and ask them to tell their friends to tell their friends to sign. Post it on Facebook, change your profile picture to the stamp, Tweet about it, e-mail it to family members, and send it around your workplace. And if you haven’t signed on yet, hurry – March 13 is just a week away!”
Launched in January 2006, New Horizons is currently 2.1 billion miles from home, flying some 34,000 miles per hour toward a July 2015 encounter with Pluto and its moons, which are just over 3 billion miles from Earth. The mission team started the formal stamp proposal last month, knowing the USPS requires proposals three years or longer before an actual stamp can result.
Sign the petition
Commemorative stamp for New Horizons
- New Horizons Getting Closer--5au Or About 14 Months To Pluto
"On the Path to Pluto, 5 AU and Closing" October 25th, 2013 NASA Pluto isn’t quite the next exit on New Horizons’ voyage through the outer solar system, but the destination is definitely getting closer. Today the NASA spacecraft speeds to within...
- Thus Spake New Horizons
"The Sounds of New Horizons" October 21st, 2013 NASA What does New Horizons say when it calls home? Nothing, without the help of software that transforms zeros and ones from New Horizons’ computers into images, instrument readings, or useful information...
- A Fuzzy Charon Visible
Scientific American's Christopher Crockett wrote... NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, now en route to Pluto, got its first glimpse of the dwarf planet’s largest moon, Charon, in this image released July 10. Pluto is the bright spot in the center...
- Oh Crap, But Don't Panic...new Horizons May Have To Dodge Some Debris Near Pluto
NASA October 16, 2012 NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is now almost seven years into its 9½-year journey across the solar system to explore Pluto and its system of moons. Just over two years from now, in January 2015, New Horizons will begin encounter...
- #4 For Pluto...new Moon “s/2011 P1” Or “p4”
"Fourth Moon Adds to Pluto's Appeal" July 20th, 2011 New Horizons NASA On the anniversary of the first landing of men on our moon, New Horizons mission team scientists have announced the discovery of a fourth moon around Pluto – adding to the...