On this week’s episode of How On Earth, the KGNU science show, you’ll hear my interview with Alan Stern, the principal investigator on NASA’s New Horizons mission. The spacecraft is headed towards the outer solar system and in 2015 will swing by Pluto, where astronomers have just detected a fourth tiny moon orbiting the dwarf planet.
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