oooo, I like this! Sounds like Dale and Carl could use a HAL right about now. []o)
I see a new favorite series on the Plutonian horizon!
One nit-pic: last line of first paragraph, “…more importantly it was the…”

ew. Seems Earth forgot them.. and Dr yang must be in a suit, Pluto is cold. Without a suit, she’d prolly die even NEAR the hatch.