2023.11.08 | Remembering Thomas Kenneth Mattingly & New Horizons: Beyond Pluto

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 8 November 2023:

Remembering Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II: American aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, rear admiral in the United States Navy, and astronaut who flew as Command Module Pilot on Apollo 16 and Space Shuttle Commander on the STS-4 and STS-51-C missions. Ken Mattingly, helped bring the Apollo 13 mission home safely. (Inserts courtesy AAB)

New Horizons: Beyond Pluto:

• Alan Stern, Associate Vice President, Space Science and Engineering Division, Southwest Research Institute, Principal Investigator and Michael Vincent, Payload Systems Engineer, New Horizons, answer audience questions about the New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet Pluto and the Kuiper Belt object Arokoth. (Recorded by The Space Show at RMIT University, Melbourne)

• Plans for the New Horizons mission beyond Pluto and Arokoth as told by Alan Stern, Principal Investigator