ALL good things come to an end. And July 14th will see the finale of the Heroic Age of space exploration. On that day a visitor from Earth will fly past Pluto and head off into the Kuiper belt--the icy, rubble-strewn fringe of the sun's sphere of influence. In doing so this visitor, an American craft called New Horizons, will fulfil an aspiration that began a mere 60 years ago, to turn the planets from being little more than night lights, whose surface features were visible fuzzily, if at all, i...
ALL good things come to an end. And July 14th will see the finale of the Heroic Age of space exploration. On that day a visitor from Earth will fly past Pluto and head off into the Kuiper belt--the icy, rubble-strewn fringe of the sun's sphere of influence. In doing so this visitor, an American craft called New Horizons, will fulfil an aspiration that began a mere 60 years ago, to turn the planets from being little more than night lights, whose surface features were visible fuzzily, if at all, i...
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