Pluto-bound spacecraft to be woken from hibernation to start mission
Saturday, December 6, 2014 - 12:50
in Astronomy & Space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) - After nine years and a journey of 3 billion miles (4.8 billion km), NASA's New Horizons robotic probe will be woken from hibernation to begin its unprecedented mission: the study of the icy dwarf planet Pluto and its home, the Kuiper Belt.