Launched from Earth on 19 January 2006, New Horizons raced outward on the fastest departure ever flown from our planet, reaching the Moon in just nine hours. A Jupiter gravity assist in February 2007 shortened the cruise by three years, shaving the total flight time to Pluto. On 14 July 2015 the spacecraft flew within 12,500 km of Pluto, revealing nitrogen glaciers, mountains of water ice, and a complex atmosphere. The real mission later encountered Arrokoth in the Kuiper Belt, but this scenario tracks the heliocentric path from launch through the Jupiter flyby and on to Pluto, using JPL Horizons states for January 2006.