Raife Gutman works for NASA as a member of the EBOP Association. EBOP, of course, stands for Experimental Biophysics/Outer Planetary Research and Resource Association. In 2006, a large team of scientists, in defiance of Raife and EBOP, voted to exclude Pluto from the elite club of 'planets'. Shocked and outraged, Raife Gutman defends his beliefs by traveling to the now 'Dwarf Planet'. However, being such a long trip, 44 years in total, Raife ends up abandoning his young daughter, Gretchen, throughout most of her life. Now back on Earth, in the year 2050, it is up to Raife Gutman, Captain and Commander of the 'New Horizons' mission, to win back the love of his daughter, fight the years of conspiracy and cover-ups that are NASA, and prove to the world that Pluto really is a planet.