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Monday, July 13, 2015

New Horizons -First Mission to Pluto

 
New Horizons is an Interplanetary Space Probe that was launched on January 19, 2006, as part of  NASA's New Frontiers Program 

Built by the Applied Physics Laboratory(APL) and the Southwest Research Institute with a team led by S Alan Stern, the spacecraft was launched to study Pluto, its Moons and the Kuiper Belt , performing flybys of the Pluto system and one or more Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs).
 

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