On: New Horizons: Nasa spacecraft speeds past Pluto

[tyho]

I am not an engineer, but it might be easier to launch a spacecraft with an ion engine that over years manages to reduce the speed relative to Pluto to something human scale.

[tim333 → tyho]

I think that would be the most practical way. Nasa already launched Dawn, an ion drive probe, to visit Vesta and Ceres.