15. Will astronauts ever be able to visit Pluto? Would there be any possibilities in the future of a manned spaceship ever landing on Pluto? (A K2S Question)

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Maybe someday astronauts will visit Pluto, but at the moment we haven't even figured out how to send astronauts to Mars, which is 30 times closer, so it won't happen for a long, long time. The furthest that astronauts have been, our own Moon, is 12,000 times closer than Pluto!

Answer provided by Dr. John Spencer, Ph.D.


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