Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space explora

Once perceived as distant, cold, dark, and seemingly unknowable, Pluto had long been marked as the farthest and most unreachable frontier for solar system explo

The story of Pluto and its largest moon, from discovery through the New Horizons flyby--Provided by publisher.

Read about the New Horizons spacecraft and its mission to gather more information about the distant dwarf planet, Pluto.

The first complete, up-to-date history of space probe exploration. In just 50 years, space exploration has advanced from the Luna 1, the first artificial object