More than 3 billion miles now separate NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft from planet Earth. This summer, the craft will fly by Pluto, the mysterious, icy planet discovered in 1930 by a young Kansan named Clyde Tombaugh. On the eve of the state's 154th birthday, Commentator Cheryl Unruh remembers the man who helped put Pluto, and Kansas, on the map.
Commentator Cheryl Unruh is a writer and author who lives in Emporia. Her latest book is called " Waiting on the Sky." Find more of her essays at FlyOverPeople.net. That's FlyOverPeople.net.