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Daniel Sarokon (January 27, 1927 - January 1, 2006) was a NASA Launch Conductor, described as 'one of the most influential people in the history of space travel. His first launch was that of the Moon probe Surveyor 1 and in his career he supervised 30 lunar and planetary missions.

The launch of the New Horizons Pluto mission in January 2006 was dedicated in his honour.

See also

• List of New Horizons topics

References

1. ^ Shuster, Patrick (January 16, 2006). "Spacecraft will carry memory of Sagamore native". Trib Total Media, Inc. Retrieved July 8, 2015.

External links

• Article about the New Horizons launch and Sarokon

v t e New Horizons
Timeline Exploration of Pluto List of New Horizons topics New Frontiers program
Targets	Flybys 132524 APL Jupiter Pluto 486958 Arrokoth Observations Neptune and Triton 2011 JY31 2011 KW48 15810 Arawn 28978 Ixion Quaoar Haumea Eris Makemake (307261) 2002 MS4 (516977) 2012 HZ84 (556416) 2014 OE394 2012 HE85 Rejected 2011 HM102 2014 MT69 2014 OS393 2014 PN70
Spacecraft	Instruments Alice Long Range Reconnaissance Imager PEPSSI Ralph REX Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter SWAP Subsystems GPHS-RTG
Personnel	Institutions Applied Physics Laboratory Ball Aerospace Goddard Space Flight Center Jet Propulsion Laboratory KinetX Southwest Research Institute Stanford University University of Colorado People Frances Bagenal Richard Binzel Alice Bowman Marc Buie Lisa Hardaway Brian May Cathy Olkin Daniel Sarokon Mark Showalter Alan Stern Hal Weaver
Logistics	Atlas V (launch vehicle) Centaur (upper stage) Star 48B (3rd stage) Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 (launch site) Deep Space Network
Related	Hubble Space Telescope Kuiper belt New Horizons 2 Pluto Kuiper Express
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