NASA's Pluto Probe Arrives at Spaceport
By SPACE.com Staff

posted: 26 September 2005
5:22 p.m. ET

A spacecraft bound for Pluto has arrived at NASA’s Florida spaceport, bringing it one step closer in its journey toward the distant world.

NASA’s New Horizons space probe arrived at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday and was promptly ushered into a clean room, NASA officials said Monday.

The 1,000-pound (453-kilogram) spacecraft is slated ride atop a Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 11, 2006 and begin a 10-year journey to Pluto and its moon Charon.

More at: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050926_newhorizons_update.html