クライド・トンボー
After an intense political battle, a revised mission to Pluto called "New Horizons" was granted funding from the US government in 2003. "New Horizons" was launched successfully on 19 January 2006. The mission leader, S. Alan Stern, confirmed that some of the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, who died in 1997, had been placed aboard the spacecraft.