We Made It To Pluto! Or At Least We're 99.999 Percent Sure We Did

Pluto as seen just before the New Horizons flybyNASAMankind won the solar system today. We met the “King of the Kuiper Belt” and took his picture. And we explored a new planet for the first time in decades. The New Horizons flyby of Pluto means we've now seen every type of world that revolves around our Sun, from the rocky inner planets to the gas giants in the middle, and now, to the icy worlds at the outer edge.It was standing room only at the New Horizons headquarters at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Maryland. The countdown to the spacecraft's closest approach to Pluto at 7:49 a.m. EDT felt like New Year's Eve. Crowds cheered and flags waved.http://cf.c.ooyala.com/RxdDg3djrts41_54Dfhx4AVTRx-tHCtc/Ut_HKthATH4eww8X4xMDoxOjA4MTsiGN function bonnierLoadVideo_b179ca68adfd() { OO.ready(function() { ...

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