New Horizons on it's way

Stardate 5189.2

I actually missed the launch this morning due to lunch hour ping-pong (which I won at) but New Horizons blasted off at exactly noon MST. Okay, I forgot :(

NASA - Success! NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a fast-moving Atlas V rocket. It's headed for a distant rendezvous with the mysterious planet Pluto almost a decade from now.

With all of the war and conflict in the world, it is great to see programs like this actually "take off". Space exploration is key to the future of mankind in my opinion. Who knows what other races actually live out there... resources, planets... the possibilities are literally endless.