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NASA's New Horizons Mission Flies by Pluto

On July 14, 2015 at 4:49 a.m. PDT, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sped past Pluto – a destination that took nearly nine and a half years to reach – and ...

New Horizons - NASA Science

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close, flying by the dwarf planet and its moons on July 14, 2015. In ...

15 Years Ago: New Horizons Launched to Pluto and Beyond - NASA

On July 14, 2015, the spacecraft zoomed through the Pluto system, taking hundreds of photographs and returning scientific information about the ...

US Spacecraft Flies by Pluto After Nine-Year Trip

The spacecraft, named New Horizons, sailed past the “dwarf” planet Pluto on Tuesday. New Horizons flew 4.88 billion kilometers to reach Pluto.

NASA's Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic ...

Because New Horizons is the fastest spacecraft ever launched – hurtling through the Pluto system at more than 30,000 mph, a collision with a ...

Pluto photographs thrill Nasa scientists after nine-year mission

Nasa spacecraft makes history as the first spacecraft to reach distant dwarf planet, the last unexplored world in solar system.

Have we sent spacecrafts to Pluto? - Cool Cosmos - Caltech

Yes! NASA's New Horizons spacecraft did a fly-by of Pluto in 2015. New Horizons launched on Jan. 19, 2006. It swung past Jupiter for a gravity boost.

New Horizons - Wikipedia

New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. ... It is the fifth space probe to achieve the escape velocity ...

NASA Spacecraft Flies Past Pluto After 10-Year Journey | TPR

On Tuesday morning, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft swooped past the surface of Pluto. The vast distance between Earth and Pluto means ...

Why did NASA spend 9 years getting to Pluto only to fly right past it?

It all comes down to fuel: New Horizons -- which is about the size of a baby grand piano -- had to carry over 3 billion miles worth of fuel to ...

Ames Contributions to the New Horizons Mission to Pluto - NASA

After nine years in flight, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will reach its primary mission destination to flyby the dwarf planet Pluto on July 14.

New Horizons: Exploring Pluto and Beyond - Space.com

NASA's New Horizons became the first spacecraft to visit dwarf planet Pluto in July 2015. The far-traveling spacecraft also visited a distant Kuiper Belt ...

Seeing Pluto: The Origin of the New Horizons Mission - Facebook

The New Horizons space probe was launched in 2006 with the primary objective to perform a flyby study of Pluto. On July 14, 2015, ...

Nasa spacecraft flies by Pluto after nine-year, 3 billion mile trip - Mint

More than nine years after its launch, a US spacecraft sailed past Pluto on Tuesday, capping a 4.88 billion km journey to the solar system's ...

The Year of Pluto | NASA+

New Horizons is the first mission to the Kuiper Belt, a gigantic zone of icy bodies and mysterious small objects orbiting beyond Neptune. This ...

NASA spacecraft flies by Pluto after nine-year, three-billion-mile trip

More than nine years after its launch, a US spacecraft sailed past Pluto on Tuesday, capping a 3 billion-mile (4.88 billion km) journey to ...

New Horizons: Nasa spacecraft speeds past Pluto - BBC News

Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft has made the first visit to Pluto, speeding past at 14km per second. Earlier, the space agency released the most detailed ...

Five Years after New Horizons' Historic Flyby, Here Are 10 ... - NASA

After a voyage of nearly 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, the intrepid piano-sized probe flew within 7,800 miles of Pluto. For the first ...

New Horizons is just hours away from Pluto after 9½-year journey

Barring a freak collision or some other cosmic disaster, the indefatigable NASA New Horizons spacecraft will fly within shouting distance of ...

Five years after New Horizons flyby, scientists assess next mission ...

Five years ago, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft barreled by Pluto for a high-speed encounter that gave humanity its first fleeting close-up ...