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Summiting the Solar System Part 2: Approaching Ultima (2018– )
TV Mini-series | Documentary

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Summiting the Solar System Part 2: Approaching Ultima (2018– )

TV Mini-series | Documentary

Just after midnight on January 1st 2019, a NASA spacecraft whizzed past the most distant space rock that's ever been visited in our Solar System. This remote interplanetary flyby will be over in a blink. But if successful, the event could ...See moreJust after midnight on January 1st 2019, a NASA spacecraft whizzed past the most distant space rock that's ever been visited in our Solar System. This remote interplanetary flyby will be over in a blink. But if successful, the event could tell us a whole lot about the objects that dominate the far reaches of our cosmic neighborhood. The robotic spacecraft making this daring visit is called New Horizons, and it's been traveling through space for 13 years, the first human-made object to ever visit Pluto in the summer of 2015. Three years later, it's ready to meet up with Ultima Thule located 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. That's 4.1 billion miles from Earth, the size of New York City, orbiting in an area of the Solar System known as the Kuiper Belt. This region of space, located beyond the orbit of Neptune, See less

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26 cast members

Name	Episodes	Known for
Fran Bagenal Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Nova (1974)
Alice Bowman Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Nova (1974)
Marc Buie Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Nova (1974)
James Christy Self (2018) (archive footage) Self (2018) (archive footage) See fewer		Orchard Revolution (2014)
Glen Fountain Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Nova (1974)
James Green Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Summiting the Solar System Part1: Pluto, Explored! (2018)
Tom Guild Narrator Narrator See fewer		Summiting the Solar System Part1: Pluto, Explored! (2018)
Ann Harch Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Summiting the Solar System Part 2: Approaching Ultima (2018)
Mark Holdridge Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Nova (1974)
Carly Howett Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		How the Universe Works (2010)
Gerald Kuiper Self (2018) (archive footage) Self (2018) (archive footage) See fewer
Tod R. Lauer Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Nova (1974)
Percival Lowell Self (2018) (archive footage) Self (2018) (archive footage) See fewer
Ted Nicolas II Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Summiting the Solar System Part 2: Approaching Ultima (2018)
Cathy Olkin Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Nova (1974)
Alex Parker Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Summiting the Solar System Part1: Pluto, Explored! (2018)
Joel Parker Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		'68 (1988)
Simon Porter Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Summiting the Solar System Part1: Pluto, Explored! (2018)
Mark Showalter Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		How the Universe Works (2010)
Kelsi Singer Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Horizon (I) (1964)
John Spencer Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		White Demise (2020)
Alan Stern Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Persephone (IV)
Clyde Tombaugh Self (2018) (archive footage) Self (2018) (archive footage) See fewer		Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991)
Hal Weaver Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Nova (1974)
Karl Whittenburg Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Sneak Peek (1994)
Leslie Young Self (2018) Self (2018) See fewer		Nova (1974)