--- title: See New Horizons' Entire Pluto Flyby in 23 Seconds description: A new NASA animation shows New Horizon's historic flyby of the dwarf planet in its entirety canonical: https://time.com/4018747/new-horizons-flyby/ author: Mia Tramz article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-01T15:30:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:41:33.861Z article:section: Science og:title: See New Horizons' Entire Pluto Flyby in 23 Seconds og:description: Get a good look at the dwarf planet og:url: https://time.com/4018747/new-horizons-flyby/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10f0b7739ee3df4f/698861daab6d773e166a5fb4/pluto-flyby-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1280 og:image:height: 720 og:image:alt: New Horizons Pluto Fly-by Animation og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See New Horizons' Entire Pluto Flyby in 23 Seconds twitter:description: Get a good look at the dwarf planet twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10f0b7739ee3df4f/698861daab6d773e166a5fb4/pluto-flyby-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See New Horizons' Entire Pluto Flyby in 23 Seconds > Sponsored content. 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NASA has collected these images into the above [animation](http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/image.php?gallery%5Fid=2&image%5Fid=266), showing the flyby from the spacecraft’s point of view, including a close encounter with Pluto, a pass behind the planet revealing its atmospheric glow lit by the sun, and a pass behind Charon, Pluto’s largest moon. The animation ends with a wide view of Pluto and Charon as New Horizons makes its departure. After New Horizons left Pluto behind, NASA announced a potential new destination for the spacecraft: a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) known as 2014 MU69 that is nearly a billion miles away from Pluto. “2014 MU69 is a great choice because it is just the kind of ancient KBO, formed where it orbits now, that the Decadal Survey desired us to fly by,” New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colo., said [in a press release](http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150828). “Moreover, this KBO costs less fuel to reach \[than other candidate targets\], leaving more fuel for the flyby, for ancillary science, and greater fuel reserves to protect against the unforeseen.” ### See New Horizons' Best Images of Pluto  An enhanced color global view of pluto released on July 24, 2015. NASA/Reuters  In the center left of Pluto’s vast heart-shaped feature – informally named “Tombaugh Regio” - lies a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes. This frozen region is north of Pluto’s icy mountains and has been informally named Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), after Earth’s first artificial satellite. The image was acquired on July 14 from a distance of 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers). NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute  A close-up image of a region near Pluto's equator shows a range of mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it passed within 7,800 feet of the dwarf planet on July 14, 2015. NASA/Getty Images  A newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern margin of Pluto’s heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute  A composite image of Pluto and its largest moon Charon collected separately by New Horizons during approach on July 13 and July 14, 2015\. The relative reflectivity, size, separation, and orientations of Pluto and Charon are approximated in this composite image, and they are shown in approximate true color. NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI  Pluto, seen from the New Horizons spacecraft on July 13, 2015 just before the space craft's historic fly-by. NASA/AP  NASA's New Horizons captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute  A close up view of Pluto's largest moon, Charon. NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI  Pluto on July 14, 2015, as seen by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft while it looked back toward the sun. NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI ## Transcript >> Hi, I'm Bryan Alexander with TIME and I'm here with Elon Musk who's been dubbed the real- life Tony Stark and who is also the founder of PayPal, the founder of Tesla Motors and the current head of this company, SpaceX. >> Right. >> Thank you so much for joining us. >> Thanks for having me. >> Kevin Lennon in Harbor, Michigan asks: Tesla Motors was recently awarded $ 465 million in a loan from the Federal Government and I believe SpaceX seeks money from the Federal Government as well. Doesn't this contradict your libertarian views? >> No, I don't think it does contradict those views because we're just living in very unusual times. We're living in times with capital availability is extremely difficult and even the private markets somewhat weak right now. I mean, this is the worst periods-- financial period since the Great Depression. So I think, you know, special times call for special circumstances and I think in this time particularly when you're dealing with something requires enormous amount of capital to get done, which is susceptible to car company. I think it does make sense to accept alone from the Department of Energy. >> Tom Hale in New York City asks: Do you really think the electric car can replace the combustion engine? >> I think probably within 20 years, a majority of new cost manufacture will be pure electric. It will take another 10 or 15 years beyond that or the fleet of existing cost will be primarily electric 'cause it takes a while to switch out things, but I feel confident in saying that within 20 years, probably sooner, majority of new cost manufacture will be pure electric. >> And what about plans? I mean, do you have any kind of timetable for that when you talk about-- >> Yeah. >> You know, it seems pretty hypothetical at this point and when does a concrete work begin with that. >> I do feel pretty confident that with what I know-- with what I've learned from doing SpaceX, which is an aerospace company and what I've learned from doing Tesla actually has a lot of experience with electric motors and batteries like a thing. I combine the knowledge that's a boost too, then it's really ideal for creating a supersonic electric plane, right? >> You're the guy. >> I've kinda make sense. So-- >> I don't see anybody behind you. >> Right. I don't know who's been-- who's chasing on that one, but-- So, I do think I've got the necessary ingredients to design the plane and make it work. I just need enough bandwidth, a personal bandwidth to be able to get it done. >> Andrew Colgree from Perth, Western Australia asks: How did you feel when the Falcon 9 successfully launched and achieved orbit? >> I was definitely elation in that case. I was super-- super excited and glad and it was-- You know, there was a lot of riding on that rockets beyond just basics because we're really at the historic inflection point for a transition to commercial space and the success or failure of Falcon 9 was at that point in history really kind of shifted that whole debate. NASA is right now moving towards commercial. The president is moving things towards commercial. There's a lot of opposition in Congress. Ironically, a lot of that opposition is coming from Republican side of the House. I think it's somewhat not well reason that it's sort of strange that you have some Republican centers and Congressmen oppose to commercialization. You know, they think the public auction is, you know, public auction is terrible unless it applies to space. It doesn't make any sense. >> Eric Kulu from Tartu, Estonia asks: >> Wow. From Australia to Estonia. >> Yes. We give you the world here at time. SpaceX was founded with the long- term goal of enabling humanity to become a space- faring civilization. Are you hoping to see that in your lifetime? >> Yes. I really am. I know, of course, it depends on how long I live. Within 40 years, we could be a space- faring civilization. The critical breakthrough-- technological breakthrough that's necessary for that is to create a truly reusable rocket system. I mean, it's not-- you know, launching expendable rockets is nice and, yes, we can be a very successful rocket company and we could even be the, you know, the overwhelmingly successful rocket company. I think there's a good chance we could be the-- the main, you know, a very high market share and really be, you know, quite dominant in the aerospace launch. But nonetheless if we do not make reusability work, I would not consider it to be a success. >> What advice would you give to young persons of developing countries who are seriously considering to be an entrepreneur, but still feeling a bit wobbly? >> You really-- When you try to create a company what you really try to do is organize a group of people to do something useful and something useful is as measured by other people who are the consumers of your products and services. But this team may seem like an obvious thing, but often people organized groups into a company that doesn't produce something useful, or the people consider useful. So, you definitely wanna listen to any positive or negative feedback that you get, which is not necessarily you believe it, but you need to look at it if any positive or negative feedback is safe, maybe it's correct, maybe it's not. 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