Dr. Alan Stern, principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to the planet Pluto, checks progress on assembly of the mission payload, behind him, Nov.4, 2005 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. New Horizons is slated to liftoff aboard an Atlas V 551 rocket in January 2006. Travel time to Pluto is from 9 to 14 years.
(Photo: CBS)
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