We have several weeks to develop that. There are issues bigger than Pluto that we must put into the context - the future of human space flight, the sense of a scaled back space station, the lack of a launch vehicle plan for the future, are three. My views are put forward to help us reach a position, and I invite other commentary , which we can post on our web site. One final note - in my opinion NASA has become a little constipated since the failures of the Mars missions at the end of 1999. Missions are being cancelled once per two or three months.
New initiatives are dead.
There is little vision about the future. And international cooperation is nearly dead - too difficult for the bureaucrats, and inhibitions thrown up by the politicians. There is a deus ex-machina which would absolutely enable a Pluto mission, improve its performance, lower its cost, and increase its benefit. Launch it on the Russian Proton . The semantic controversy about whether Pluto is really a planet is a diversion to the topic here.