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NASA's Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter
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14.07.2015
At long last, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday. It's now about 7,750 miles above the surface -- roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India. It's the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth. As planned, the spacecraft is now in data-gathering mode and not in contact with flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physical Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. Scientists are waiting to find out whether New Horizons “phones home,” transmitting to Earth a series of status updates that indicate the spacecraft survived the flyby and is in good health. The “call” is expected shortly after 9 p.m. tonight.
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