Have there ever been any missions to Pluto?

Answer 1

The Voyager 2 space probe flew by Neptune in August 1989 and scanned the planet, sending photographs and scientific data back to Earth.

However, no, there has not been an astronaut landing on Neptune. And there wont ever be one for the following reasons:

- Neptune is freezing cold. A human would freeze to death in seconds

- Electronic equipment would also freeze and malfunction in the cold

- Neptune is a stormy planet. Humans would be blown off into space by the storm

- Neptune is a gas giant. Theoretically there is no solid surface for astronauts to walk on. They would sink through the planet and be consumed by the molten ammonia core.

- Modern space shuttles are only currently designed to orbit our own planet and the moon. We do not have the technology to keep a shuttle in space safely long enough with humans on board to reach Neptune.

Answer 2

Voyager 2 was on a mission to fly past all the giant planets and it discovered the rings of Uranus and a whole lot of undiscovered moons. It used the gravity of Uranus to swing it further on towards Neptune.

Answer 3

Neptune is a gas giant, meaning absolutely no land, so in order to "visit" it would need to have a couple of things:

1. A big tolerance for pressure.

2. Need to be liquid proof

3. a single spark could light that planet ablaze, so it wouldn't get back to earth, with rockets, so they would also need to find a solution.

4. A very good reason to visit neptune, it cost 24,000 a pound to send something into space after all (Not to mention all the fuel, metals used in the rocket, and man power)

5. and until aliens from neptune invade, it probably ins't going to happen for a long time, sorry charlie

Answer 4

Yes, the New Horizons spacecraft conducted a flyby mission of Pluto in July 2015, providing valuable data and images of the distant dwarf planet. No other spacecraft has visited Pluto yet.

Answer 5

The American Probe Voyager 2 reached Neptune in 1989 and investigated its largest moon: Triton. No human has ever visited Neptune nor has any probe before or since Voyager 2.

Answer 6

No.

Neptune is simply too far away.

The furthest planet researched by spaceships is Mercury.

Answer 7

Yes, the voyager spacecraft. And a different one from captain janeway's voyager

Answer 8

Voyager 1 is the only space probe to visit Neptune

Answer 9

In 2006, NASA launched a space probe towards mars, that is due to arrive in 2015. This is the first time we will have seen pluto.

Answer 10

Yes. Neptune has been visited by only one spacecraft, Voyager 2, which flew by the blue planet on August 25, 1989