| Country of Origin | Congo |
|---|---|
| Type | Souvenir Sheet |
| Quality | Mint Never Hinged/MNH |
| Theme | Space |
| Region | Congo |
| Grade | Ungraded |
| Certification | Uncertified |
Check the listing for details. New Horizons Stamp Space Satellite Probe Souvenir Sheet Mint NH. Made in Congo. Listed at 17.64 USD. It was the fastest man-made object ever launched from Earth. New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by S. Alan Stern, the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study of the Pluto system in 2015, and a secondary mission to fly by and study one or more other Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) in the decade to follow, which as of 2019 includes 2014 MU69.