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Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Pluto Flyby is Confirmed - All Systems Go!
With a successful fly-by of the planet Pluto behind us, now we wait for the real exciting stuff - hi-res close-ups of the farthest planetary body. New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India — making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.
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