For the past thirty years, NASA has sponsored numerous highly ambitious space exploration missions that have dramatically expanded the existing knowledge base about various planetary bodies throughout our universe. The agency's New Horizons project intends to begin a mission to explore Pluto and Charon sometime in the near future, and the hope is that the project would also explore a variety of objects in the Kuiper Belt Region beyond Neptune. The project's site contains a number of well-organized sections, and most visitors will want to start by looking at the Science section. Here they can learn what is currently known about Pluto, Charon, and the Kuiper Belt, along with browsing a glossary of terms. For up to date information about the status of the mission, visitors will want to take a look at the mission statement and the team responsible for making sure everything goes smoothly. Rounding out the site is the Gallery area, which contains artist renderings and educational posters that may be downloaded and printed out for any number of uses.
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