New Horizons Closing In For A Fast Pluto Flyby

Credit: NASA/APL/SwRI
A nuclear-powered spacecraft the size of a baby grand piano is in final approach at Pluto, an object so distant our understanding of what it is has changed dramatically since the $700 million mission lifted off almost a decade ago on the fastest ride ever out of Earth’s gravity. When New Horizons...

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