‘We Have a Healthy Spacecraft’

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.
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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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