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Michael Soluri

Uno Carlson (left) and Geffrey Ottman worked on the New Horizons spacecraft as power systems engineers.

LORRI's graphite baffle blocks stray light from getting inside the highly sensitive instrument.

New Horizons stands in mid-assembly at NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland. Two star trackers (right of centre) and the LORRI telescope (left of centre) seem to peer outward from the spacecraft's belly.

On January 19, 2006, an Atlas V rocket launched New Horizons toward Pluto, as captured here by a remote camera 100 metres (300 feet) from the launchpad.

The sun rises expectantly over Cocoa Beach, Florida, on January 19, 2006—hours before New Horizons launched from nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station toward Pluto and beyond.

Alex Parker (centre) and other members of the New Horizons team joyously react to the latest images of Pluto.

Alan Stern and the New Horizons team celebrate auspicious news: the spacecraft successfully flew through the Pluto system, filling its memory banks with data along the way.

The New Horizons team pores over the spacecraft's final picture of Pluto before making its closest approach on the morning of July 14, 2015.

New Horizons co-investigator Paul Schenk, the mission's lead on mapping Pluto, works away at his laptop days before the flyby, accompanied by his LEGO model of the probe.

Technicians gaze as New Horizons pirouettes like a ballerina in this July 2005 test of the spacecraft's ability to handle spinning.