Nova Chasing Pluto (Season 42, Episode 11)
TV-G
TV Episode | 54 min | Documentary

Nova

Chasing Pluto (Season 42, Episode 11)

TV-G

TV Episode | 54 min | Documentary

NOVA captures New Horizons' historic flyby of Pluto, the culmination of the spacecraft's nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to reveal the first ever detailed images of this strange, icy world at the very edge of our solar system.

Director

Terri Randall

Writer

Terri Randall

Producers

Kristine Allington | Ari Daniel | Terri Randall

Editor

Jedd Ehrmann

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Edit Released

Updated Jul 15, 2015

Release date

Jul 15, 2015 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award. Another 22 wins & 63 nominations

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Cast	+ Add Cast
19 cast members

Name	Known for
Alice Bowman Self Self See fewer	Nova (1974)
Mike Brown Self Self See fewer	PBS NewsHour (1975)
Andrew Cheng Self Self See fewer	Nova (1974)
Sigrid Elschot Self (as Sigrid Close) Self (as Sigrid Close) See fewer	Known Universe (2009)
Glen Fountain Self Self See fewer	Nova (1974)
Mark Holdridge Self Self See fewer	Nova (1974)
David Jewitt Self Self See fewer	How the Universe Works (2010)
Jane Luu Self Self See fewer	Nova (1974)
Cathy Olkin Self Self See fewer	Nova (1974)
William Owen Self Self See fewer	Nova (1974)
Joel Parker Self Self See fewer	'68 (1988)
Caleb Scharf Self Self See fewer	One Strange Rock (2018)
Craig Sechler Self - Narrator Self - Narrator See fewer	Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
John Spencer Self Self See fewer	Woman in Motion (2019)
Alan Stern Self Self See fewer	Persephone (IV)
Mark Sykes Self Self See fewer	How the Universe Works (2010)
Annette Tombaugh Self Self See fewer	Nova (1974)
Hal Weaver Self Self See fewer	Nova (1974)
Leslie Young Self Self See fewer	Nova (1974)