In my last entry, I talked about how NASA was floating a weird proposal. In essence, the agency wanted to change the New Horizons mission from a Kuiper Belt explorer to doing solely heliophysics. This, while the spacecraft is still in the Kuiper Belt, exploring this largely unexplored part of the Solar System. Oh, and … Continue reading New Horizons May Be Safe… For Now →

Over on Universe Today, I wrote in April about how NASA’s proposed plans for New Horizons seem just a little bit inexplicable. I wanted to share my opinion here about the whole thing. Basically, the Science Mission Directorate is thinking about stopping planetary science using this spacecraft and turning it into a heliophysics mission. Not … Continue reading Doing WHAT with New Horizons, NASA? →