New Horizons spacecraft is launched with primary mission to flyby Pluto and its moons and study them. But before we get into this blog, read the previous blog about the planet Pluto and get an overall idea about the planet. Now that you have read about Pluto’s history, orbit and composition let’s get into this NASA’s New Frontiers Program- New Horizons. New Horizon is space probe which was launched on January 19, 2006.It is engineered by Johns HopkinsUniversity Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest ResearchInstitute (SwRI), with a team led by S. Alan Stern . The name “New Horizons” was derived from Pluto’s moons, Nix and Hydra. The first letters of their names, N and H are initials of New Horizons. MISSION: The primary mission of New Horizons spacecraft is to study Pluto and study one or more Kuiper belt objects. Originally the mission was to explore the undiscovered planets and objects in the solar system. This was when Pluto was still classif