'ashes to ashes, dust to dust'

This is a moon shot I took @ 1/2, f/10, ISO5,000

It took the Apollo spacecraft 4 days to reach the moon.  In 2006 the New Horizon, the fastest spacecraft ever, blasted past the Moon in 9-hours. Yesterday, it zipped past Pluto and its moons - transforming what we knew as just a pixelated blob of light into a detailed world with complexity and diversity.
In 1930 a young researcher, Clyde Tombaugh discovered a shifting point of light on a glass plate. Pluto.  Amazingly, Tombaugh's ashes are aboard the New Horizon. They really are. How cool is that?

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