houston...we have lift off

Nasa has finally sent a rocket to pluto, says and article in the New York times. This $700 million spacecraft left yesterday at 2 pm. Its goal is to hit jupiter in 2007, which will then push it on to pluto. The space craft was moving so fast at lift off, that it was able to pass the moon in 9 hours. It is secheduled to reach pluto in approximately nine years. Once the New Horizons reaches the planet, it will conduct experiments for five months. After those experiments are complete, it will continue on to the Kuiper Belt, an outer zone of the solar system which includes Pluto.

Before americans began researching other planets, thy landed on the moon. On July, 16, 1969, apollo 11 took off from the Kennedy Space Center. On July, 20, 1969, the spacecraft landed on the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first man to leave the craft and actually walk on the moon. During the two hours they spent on the surface of the moon, they performed experiments and collected soil and rock samples. The astronauts left an american flag on the moon a symbol to show that they were the first to accomplish the task of landing on the moon. The space craft returned to Earth on July 24, 1969.