# Hey! We're Going To Pluto! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 26, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-were-going-to-pluto/157669 "2003-02-26T16:56:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-were-going-to-pluto/157669/1 "2003-02-26T16:56:58Z")
[Initial funding for a NASA mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt of frozen objects at the outskirts of our solar system received formal approval when President Bush quietly signed an omnibus bill last week](http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pluto_horizons_030225.html) > [@](#): > > The bill signed by the president on Feb. 20 secures $110 million in NASA’s 2003 budget for the New Horizon’s project, Stern said. Of that total, $15 million is for a broader umbrella program called New Frontiers, but Stern said NASA had assured him all $110 million would go toward New Horizons. > The money allows Stern and his colleagues to proceed with final design of the spacecraft. Construction is slated to begin in the summer of 2004. [Homer Simpson]Woohoo![/HS] ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-were-going-to-pluto/157669/2 "2003-02-26T17:18:14Z")
_looks across the street_ Yup, they’ve been working hard on the pluto probe for a few months now. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-were-going-to-pluto/157669/3 "2003-02-26T20:14:24Z")
What’s it gonna be, the “cannonball with a camera” design or something more complex? Me, I just wanna see some good goddamn pictures is all. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-were-going-to-pluto/157669/4 "2003-02-26T20:27:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Olentzero \* > \*\*What’s it gonna be, the “cannonball with a camera” design or something more complex? > > Me, I just wanna see some good goddamn pictures is all. \*\* Don’t know, but I too hope they put a camera on the thing. Wish they would have done that with the probe they dropped on Jupiter. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-were-going-to-pluto/157669/5 "2003-02-26T21:23:55Z")
Yes! I can finely uncross my fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-were-going-to-pluto/157669/6 "2003-02-26T22:00:19Z")
When will we go to Goofy? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-were-going-to-pluto/157669/7 "2003-02-26T22:06:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zebra \* > \*\*When will we go to Goofy? \*\* _Some_ of us don’t have that much further to go…😃