Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto, co-authored with planetary scientist Alan Stern, tells the inside story of NASA’s New Horizons mission — the first spacecraft to explore Pluto and its moons up close. Drawing on his own role on the mission team, Grinspoon takes readers behind the scenes of the decades-long effort to get a mission to Pluto approved, built, and flown across three billion miles of space to reveal a world no one had ever seen in detail before.
“Chasing New Horizons is a cliff-hanger, a page-turner, a spine-tingler, and, ultimately, a reason to stand up and cheer.” — Dava Sobel, New York Times bestselling author of Galileo’s Daughter and The Glass Universe
“Stern and Grinspoon show us what NASA can do when the United States brings its best. New Horizons is still flying, and for us Plutophiles it’s the adventure of a lifetime.” — Bill Nye, science educator, CEO the Planetary Society
