It's Official! NASA Pluto Probe to Fly by Another Object in 2019
Friday, July 1, 2016 - 17:30
in Astronomy & Space
NASA has approved a mission extension for New Horizons, which performed the first-ever flyby of Pluto in July 2015. The spacecraft is now set for a Jan. 1, 2019 flyby of a small object called 2014 MU69, which lies about 1 billion miles beyond Pluto.