New Horizons Spacecraft Crosses Neptune Orbit En Route To Pluto

CROSSING NEPTUNE: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has crossed Neptune’s orbit as it continues on its way to become the first probe to make a close encounter with Pluto on July 14, 2015. It took the spacecraft, which launched in 2006, eight years and eight months to reach Neptune’s orbit, which is...

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