The Year of Pluto (2015)

New Horizons is the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt of rocky icy objects beyond Principal Investigator Alan Stern leads a mission team that includes the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Southwest Research Institute Ball Aerospace Corporation the Boeing Company NASA Goddard Space Flight Center NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Stanford University KinetX Inc Lockheed Martin Corporation University of Colorado the US Department of Energy and a number of other firms NASA centers and university partners