NASA's New Horizons Team Watchers the Pluto Flyby

The silhouettes of Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate John Grunsfeld, New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, CO., Glen Fountain, New Horizons Project Manager, APL, and Cathy Olkin, Co-investigator, Ralph instrument, SwRI are seen during a media briefing Monday, July 13, 2015 at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland on July 13, 2015. The closest approach was in July 24, 2015. The spacecraft was launched nine years ago and traveled 3 billion miles. NASA Photo by Bill Ingalls/UPI