New Horizons Journeys Toward Pluto |
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Written by spacetravel.org
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Sunday, 22 January 2006 21:21 |
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The New Horizons spacecraft was launched aboard a Lockheed-Martin Atlas V rocket on 19 January at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Liftoff occurred at 2:00:00 PM EST.
New Horizons is the first spacecraft to visit Pluto and Charon, its moon. It will conduct flyby studies of Pluto and Charon in 2015.
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