NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) Outreach Office at Kennedy Space Center excels in providing awareness to students, teachers and the public about the agency's exciting spacecraft missions and how they benefit people here at home and throughout the world.
Through public outreach, educational support and multimedia projects, the LSP Outreach Office works to inspire a new generation of explorers. Informing the public and encouraging students to study science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines 
will help ensure NASA continues to lead the world in aerospace exploration.
Professional educators, please contact us at: ksc-lsp-education@mail.nasa.gov regarding services and opportunities.
Hammett Bowen Jr. Elementary-NASA LSP Logo Contest
The NASA LSP Educational Outreach Office has chosen the winners of the LSP Logo Contest for most creative and most detailed designs. Participants from Hammett Bowen Jr. Elementary School submitted their LSP Logo designs to be judged by NASA engineers in the program.
New Horizons launched on Jan. 19, 2006; it swung past Jupiter for a gravity boost and scientific studies in February 2007, and will conduct a five-month-long reconnaissance flyby study of Pluto and its moons in summer 2015. New Horizons closest approach to Pluto occurred on July 14, 2015. As part of an extended mission, the spacecraft is expected to head farther into the Kuiper Belt to examine one or two of the ancient, icy mini-worlds in that vast region, at least a billion miles beyond Neptune’s orbit.
Sending a spacecraft on this long journey will help us answer basic questions about the surface properties, geology, interior makeup and atmospheres on these bodies.
