U.S. spacecraft flies by Pluto after nine-year, 3 billon mile trip

Tuesday, July 14, 2015 - 09:00 in Astronomy & Space

LAUREL, Md. (Reuters) - More than nine years after its launch, a U.S. spacecraft sailed past Pluto on Tuesday, capping a 3 billion mile (4.88 billion km) journey to the solar system’s farthest reaches, NASA said.

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