Number 93 (Story #4), September 9, 1992 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE PLUTO FAST FLYBY mission, under consideration at NASA would shoot a pair of light spacecraft (150 kg compared to 1500 kg for Galileo) toward Pluto aboard a Titan/Centaur rocket. If approved, the craft would depart as early as 1998 and take seven or eight years to reach the ninth planet, where they would take pictures and perform spectroscopy at radio, infrared, and ultraviolet wavelengths. (Nature, 27 August 1992.)