New Horizons Pluto Mission: A Tour De Force of Rocketry, Technology

Credit: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY
The New Horizons Pluto flyby spacecraft is poised to become the fastest vehicle ever to depart Earth, blazing outbound at 10.07 mi. per sec.--zooming past the orbit of the Moon in just 9 hr.--on the first mission to the last known planet. New Horizons' velocity will be about 10,000 mph. faster than...

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