NASA sends Pluto flyby back to the drawing board as costs soar

NASA headquarters has stopped work on the Pluto-Kuiper Express deep-space probe, sending engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory back to the drawing board to find less expensive ways of exploring the distant planet, its moon Charon and the icy objects in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune. Edward...

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