NASA’s Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter

By Dwayne Brown / Laurie Cantillo | NASA, Maria Stothoff | Southwest Research Institute, Mike Buckley | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on Jul 14, 2015   Featured, Science/Education  

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 […]