NASA's three-billion-mile journey to Pluto reaches historic encounter

Tuesday, July 14, 2015 - 10:00 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface -- roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India -- making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.

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