Tis the season, as they say.  This year is a good one for space missions with the March arrival of the Dawn spacecraft at Ceres and the July fly-by of Pluto by new horizons.  Dawn made history by being the first ever spacecraft to orbit a dwarf planet, and new horizons will provide the first ever pictures of the surface of Pluto in unprecedented detail.  I can barely contain my excitement, after having watched the launch of New Horizons live on NASA TV in 2006.  I thought about what life would be like in 2015 and what Pluto would look...