Hi, I'm Joe Peterson. I'm the science operations downlink lead for the New Horizons mission of Pluto. And I'm here to take part in one of my favorite hobbies that's jumping out of airplanes. You might think that after the thrill of jumping out of airplanes, but getting back to behind a computer and doing basically geeky stuff for a space mission might be not as exciting, but it's not true at all. Working on this project has an immense amount of excitement and we're exploring space. It's pretty amazing. So one of the great things about skydiving is all the teamwork involved. With New Horizons, teamwork is so important. We have many many people in this project, unless they all work together as a team, just this mission just can't come together. One of the things we do just for fun in skydiving are jumps that are a little out of the ordinary. We take a fool of who. We actually take turns diving through the hoop. On New Horizons, there's a similar thing going on that we need to thread the needle as we go by Pluto. We want to go by just where we want to be and we want to be the right place to take the best observations. And we have a navigation team that is doing this needle threading that is so hard. It requires precision flying. And we're coming up on the culmination of all this effort, all this planning. Very soon, we're going to go by Pluto and get the actual goods of what this whole mission is wanting to do. It's a discover this amazing place that we haven't explored yet. Quite naturally, the public believes skydiving is incredibly risky, but those risks can be mitigated. Space exploration is a risky business. And there's a lot of time, a lot of heart and soul involved. New horizons, we've got seven different instruments all taking data of different parts of Pluto, the atmosphere of the surface. All the timing is so critical and has to be choreographed so well. And that's one thing that our science team has been working on for years. So after a great skydive, throw out your pilot shoot, you know, canopy opens over your head and everything gets quiet. No longer have that wind noise. And now you're just floating, looking at the mountains and flying your parachute down, thinking, wow, what a great job we just did. The new horizons, that's the same kind of feeling that I think we're all going to feel after we've passed by Pluto, taken our observations, seen them come down, at least seen a good number of them come down and say, wow, we really got some great pictures, some great data.