Abstract: The New Horizons (NH) mission was selected by NASA in November 2001 to conduct the first in situ reconnaissance of Pluto and the Kuiper belt. The NH spacecraft was launched on 2006 January 19, received a gravity@ assist from Jupiter during closest approach on 2007 February 28, and flew 12,500 km above Pluto's surface on 2015 July 14. NH carries a sophisticated suite of seven scientific instruments, altogether weighing less than 30 kg and drawing less than 30 W of power, that includes panchromatic and color imagers, ultraviolet and infrared spectral imagers, a radio science package, plasma and charged particle sensors, and a dust counting experiment. These instruments enabled the first detailed exploration of a new class of solar system objects, the dwarf planets, which have exotic volatiles on their surfaces, escaping atmospheres, and satellite systems. NH also provided the first dust density measurements beyond 18~AU and cratering records that document both the ancient and present-day collisional environment in the outer solar system down to sizes of tens of meters. NH obtained unprecedented data on Plutofs small satellites (Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra), adding significantly to the scientific bounty returned from the NH mission. The NH spacecraft will be targeted toward the flyby of a small (~30 km) KBO in late-2015, enabling the study of an object in a completely different dynamical class (cold classical) than Pluto, if NASA approves an Extended Mission phase. **************************************************** Short Biography for Hal Weaver Weaver has been pursuing space-borne, rocket-borne, airborne, and ground-based investigations in planetary science since 1978. For his doctoral degree (Ph.D. in physics from The Johns Hopkins University in 1982), he analyzed cometary spectra obtained with the NASA/ESA International Ultraviolet Observer (IUE) satellite. This was the first systematic investigation of cometary ultraviolet (UV) emissions and demonstrated that water was the dominant volatile constituent in cometary nuclei. In 1985-1986 he made infrared (IR) observations of Comet Halley from the NASA Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO), which resulted in the first unambiguous, direct detection of water in comets, and for which he was awarded the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 1988. Weaver he led many investigations of comets using the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST), including serving as the Chair of the science team investigating Comet D/Shoemaker-Levy 9 as it plunged into Jupiter's atmosphere in July 1994. In March 2007, Weaver was appointed as a Co-Investigator on the Alice Ultraviolet Spectrograph, which is one of the principal NASA contributions to the ESA-led Rosetta comet mission. Weaver joined the Senior Professional Staff at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in May 2002, and he has been a member of the Principal Professional Staff since 2006. He is currently the Project Scientist on the New Horizons Mission, which is the first spacecraft mission to Pluto and the Kuiper belt. In 2005, Weaver co-led a team that discovered two new satellites around Pluto (Nix and Hydra), and he was on the team that discovered two other small Pluto satellites (Kerberos and Styx) in 2011 and 2013. In 1996, asteroid 1984 FN was renamed to asteroid gHalweaver" in recognition of Weaver1s work on the chemical composition of comets. Weaver has published over 100 refereed papers, including studies of comets, planets, and satellites. He also has a longstanding interest in research on the formation and evolution of planetary systems. EDUCATION: The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Ph.D. in Physics, May 1982 M.A. in Physics, October 1977 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina B.S. in Physics, May 1975 ****************************************************