20 days until launch window opens.....

For the New Horizons spacecraft to begin it's trip to Pluto. Launch window goes from January 17th 2005 until February 14th 2005. If a launch is succesful before February 3rd it will enable New Horizons to slingshot off of Jupiter and cut 5 years off of it's flight. New Horizons will be the fastest spacecraft to ever leave Earths orbit. It will reach lunar orbit distance in just nine hours. ETA at Pluto is 2015.