NASA's New Horizons Mission Sparks Debate Among Scientists

NASA is considering changing the primary goal of the New Horizons mission to study the Sun's environment instead of observing objects in the Kuiper Belt, which has frustrated the science team behind the mission. The team argues that New Horizons can continue being a planetary and heliophysics mission at the same time without affecting the cost or trajectory of the spacecraft. The New Horizons team fears that the mission team would be disbanded if NASA's decision goes into effect.