NASA seeks low-cost Pluto missions in bid to keep options open

NASA will ask "the best minds in the country" to help it find a way to send a robotic probe to Pluto for less than $500 million, in a last-chance bid to examine the remote planet before its atmosphere refreezes as it makes its 248-year elliptical circuit around the sun. Ed Weiler, associate...

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