If launched by Jan. 28, the craft would reach Pluto by 2015.
"I'd like to see the look on the face of them dumb cops when they reach Pluto and find us gone," said Herb.
They would reach Pluto at about the same time, eleven days after the honeymooner left Neptune.
It is to reach Pluto in July 2015 or the next year.
Voyager 2 never had a plausible trajectory for reaching Pluto.
If a voyage from the sun to the nearest star were like a marathon, in reaching Pluto the runner would have gone only fifteen feet.
And it led him, a few years later, on that last vain attempt to reach Pluto from which Carew never returned.
Yet he had deter- mined to reach Pluto.
But, though there were many stowaways, not one had yet reached Pluto.
If the robot-torch had reached Pluto, they could quit!