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Navigators on the planned New Horizons mission to Pluto, Charon and the Kuiper Belt have trimmed a year off the 3-billion-mi. cruise to the outermost planet by optimizing their launch window. That would bring the probe to Pluto for a flyby in 2015 rather than 2016, as originally estimated. Mission...
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