Pluto-Kuiper Express
Links
NASA Revives Pluto Mission; 2004 Launch Possible
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/pluto_nasa_plans_001220.html
News report of a NASA announcement that a mission to Pluto could launch as soon as 2004 and arrive eight years later.
Team Tapped to Design Pluto Probe
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/12/01/pluto.mission/index.html
NASA this week gave approval to draft a design of a robot ship to study Pluto. [CNN]
Pluto Kuiper Express
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/PLUTOKE.html
Spacecraft and mission profile from the National Space Science Data Center.
We Want Pluto, Scientists Plead
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53791,00.html
The National Research Council urges an exploration of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. [Wired]
A Shortcut to Pluto
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Target&Target=Pluto&MCode=PKB
New Horizons mission team plots a faster path to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Spacecraft could complete 3 billion mile journey by 2015.
New Horizons
An unmanned Pluto-Kuiper Belt probe study. New Horizons, if approved, would launch in 2006.