The mission's scientists are pissed.
For almost 15 years, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has been blasting through the cosmos on a journey to study the farthest reaches of our solar system.
But now that it's gotten there, NASA has made a surprise announcement: that the mission's primary target is changing from the mysterious objects lurking in our system's Kuiper asteroid belt to studying the environment at the distant reaches of the Sun instead — a necksnapping change that has upset the scientists in charge of the mission,"NASA spent almost a billion dollars to get this spacecraft to the Kuiper Belt," Alan Stern, principal investigator for New Horizons, told.
"No spacecraft has ever explored the Kuiper Belt before and no spacecraft has plans yet to come again," Stern told, warning that this could "be the end of any Kuiper Belt exploration by spacecraft for decades because it takes so long to get out there.
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