New Horizons Gets Cozy With Pluto
HOUSTON — NASA’s marathon New Horizons mission to distant Pluto and the Kuiper Belt earlier this month became the closest spacecraft ever to pass the famed dwarf planet. The $700 million mission to characterize the surface and atmosphere of Pluto with a flyby was launched on Jan. 19, 2006. After a...
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