Show Your Support for Pluto's Probe

What do Joe DiMaggio, Elvis Presley, and Lucille Ball have in common? They've all been featured on U.S. postage stamps. And what do Apollo 11, the Viking landers, Skylab, and Mariner 10 have that the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft doesn't? You guessed it: each has a stamp to call its own.

Concept artwork for a New Horizons postage stamp.

Dan Durda

But things might change if the mission's scientists have their way. Led by principal investigator Alan Stern and colleague Dan Durda (Southwest Research Institute), they're rounding up support for a stamp that shows New Horizons zipping past Pluto. The online petition they've started urges the Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee to recommend just such a stamp to the Postmaster General.
MORE: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/Show-Your-Support-for-Plutos-Probe-138659409.html

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