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‘We Have a Healthy Spacecraft’

by Josh Marshall

01.01.19 | 12:51 pm

It will be humanity’s most distant exploration of another world, coming 3 ½ years after New Horizons’ swing past Pluto. — It will be humanity's most distant exploration of another world, coming 3 ½ years after New Horizons' swing past Pluto.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has communicated with flight controllers in Laurel, Maryland after a flyby of a distant orb named ‘Ultima Thule’ far beyond Pluto.

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Josh Marshall is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TPM.

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