Has Earth Astronots ever been to Pluto?

Answer 1

No.

Answer 2

No, they haven't. There is an unmanned spacecraft named New Horizons that launched in January 2006 that is on its way right now. It has actually already been slung by Jupiter's gravity and is expected to arrive July, 2015.

There are other planets that would be easier to adapt to for humans, and we we need to do a lot more exploring of Pluto before we send a human. New Horizon's is the first spacecraft to head to Pluto.

Finally, Pluto is considered a dwarf planet only because it doesn't clear its field of debris.

Answer 3

Nunna Yortz hit the nail on the head with the destructive power of dust when you are travelling at high velocity. I have been trying to impress on people who talk freely of travelling at close to light speed, how at that speed (even if it was wildly possible), individual molecules would dtesroy you.

At high velocity you cannot take avoiding action. The slightest deviation from course would put unimaginable g-forces of everything in the ship, and humans usually die at around 12 g's. The same goes for slowing down - massive g forces.

The fact is, though it is good to dream of star ships and such, we are just soft-bodied, water-based creatures, who need to be nurtured like new-born babies when we go into space.

Whether people like it or not, deep-space exploration will be done by machines. There is little doubt about that.

Just for the record for this questioner: Pluto is about 15,000 times as far away as the moon - digest that for a minute. The moon shots cost billions of dollars (hundreds of billions by today's rates). However, we have sent unmanned probes that far, and beyond.

Then the stars are of the order of 10,000 times as far away as Pluto - that is to the nearest one.

You see how primitive we are in regard to space travel? You could almost compare it to a caveman's dugout canoe compared with modern transport.

Answer 4

We don't even have the technology to get out of our own backyard right now. We haven't been to Pluto, unless you mean the dog at DIsney. And we never will accomplish anything major as far as space exploration until Nasa realizes that you don't get good space-mileage on rocket fuel. WHY AREN'T THEY PUSHING FOR ION DRIVES??? THEY HAVE BEEN PROVEN SUCCESSFUL!

Not to mention that the shuttles are about as durable as tinfoil pie plates. One grain of sand travelling at 30,000 mph can critically damage a shuttle if it hits the wrong place. Also we need to be able to protect ourselves from cosmic rays, and we would also need to find a way to reproduce gravity for any trip that long if we ever plan to be able to survive once we get back to earth after that long in space. Your bones lose density, and your muscles wear away after being in space for short periods just in earth orbit, so imagine the problems with going all the way to Pluto and back.

WE HAVE A VERY LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE WE ARE READY.

Answer 5

We have only been to the Moon. No human (from Earth at least that we know) have ever gone farther than the Moon.

NASA plans to go back to the Moon in 2018, and after that, go to Mars. It will be the first time humans go beyond the Moon’s orbit and adventure into space, and better, the first time that any human step over another planet.

Good luck… we are going to need it.

Answer 6

No.

However, a Space Probe is on its way there now. At this time the probe is very near Jupiter and will swing around Jupiter using the sling shot effect of Jupiter's gravity to speed up the trip to Pluto.

Answer 7

Lenny Loosejocks Goes to Pluto

Answer 8

Considering the best picture we have of pluto is a blurry circle and we havn't even been to the moon in over 30 years...

Answer 9

I will be nice unlike others
This place here is to learn not critisize

No, we have only been to Mars, but in the next decade or 2 NASA is planning to do a mission called Moon, Mars, and Beyond..
Possibly then we will get somewhere,
Look out for me, I want to be an astronaut

Answer 10

Nope

Answer 11

I think Micky Mouse has. Wait maybe that was Minnie. No I gt it. Mickey was pissed because someone said " Minie is f*cking goofey." Yeah thats it.