This audiobook may be the close up, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players.

On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion kilometers from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft known as New Horizons screamed past Pluto at a lot more than 32,000 kilometers per hour, focusing its instruments over the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just like about Chasing after New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto quickly, continuing on its trip out into the beyond.

Nothing like it has occurred inside a generation-a natural exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune-and nothing at all quite like it is planned to occur ever again. The photos that New Horizons sent back to Globe graced the front pages of papers on all 7 continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than 2 billion strikes in the days encircling the flyby. At the same time when so many believe that our most historical achievements are before, the most faraway planetary exploration ever attempted not only succeeded in 2015 but made history and captured the world’s creativity.

How did this happen? Chasing New Horizons may be the story from the women and men behind this phenomenal objective: of their decades-long dedication and persistence; from the political battles within and outside of NASA; from the sheer individual ingenuity it took to design, build, and take a flight the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next encounter, 1 billion mls past Pluto in 2019.

Told from your insider’s perspective of mission head Dr. Alan Stern while others on New Horizons, Chasing New Horizons is certainly a riveting tale of scientific breakthrough, and of how much we human beings can perform when people focused on a desire work together toward their amazing goal.