Important Innovations Collection: Cosmic Rockin New Years - NASA Spacecraft
Happy New Year Greetings from Outer Space NASA's New Horizons Ultima Thule - Cosmic Rock The cosmic rock is called Ultima Thule, which means "beyond what is human to see." It is 4 billion miles above the earth. On New Years Day 2019, NASA's spacecraft New Horizons will do a fly by around it and start transmitting data to earth. It is the farthest any spacecraft has travelled into outer space. For a news blog on this remarkable achievement, go to my journalist colleague Ed Kane's blog at Important Innovations Collection: Cosmic Rockin New Years - NASA Spacecraft : NASA Mission on New Years Reaches Cosmic Rock Beyond Pluto Source: NASA's New Horizons Historic Mission, Science and Innovation...