MIchael Soluri & Allan Stern with New Horizons Spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center
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With access granted to me by NASA HQ, Goddard Space Flight Center, Kennedy Space Center and John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, I began a series of photographic portraits.  A behind-the-scenes documentation of "earth-based" moments — most in a clean-room environment — of the engineers, scientist and technicians involved in the New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission, like Dr. Alan Stern, the mission’s Principle Investigator.

More on New Horizons:
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/index.php
http://www.swri.edu/

Spreads from my current book: What’s Out There!
http://www.SOLURI.COM/snd/space/Whats_Out_There.html

Michael’s portfolio and related galleries:
http://www.michaelsoluri.com

All Photographs © 2005 by Michael Soluri