Clyde Tombaugh’s Ashes Will Fly By Pluto Today

In 1930, a young American astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, today his ashes will fly by the dwarf planet.  Tombaugh’s wish before passing away in 1997 was for his ashes to be sent into space.  An ounce of the astronomer’s ashes are Contained in an aluminum capsule on NASA’s New Horizon which was launched into space on 2006 and now in 2015 it is set to leave our solar system.  A live broadcast of the flyby will be broadcast on NASA TV.  This will represent a major event in the history of space exploration.

See Arden Dier, One man’s ashes will fly by Pluto on Tuesday, July 13, 2015.