Neil Armstrong's most famous line – “That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,”Now , the second step for man will be another giant leap for mankind. .NASA'S spacecraft has gotten humanity’s first up-close look at Pluto,
The spacecraft sent word of its triumph Tuesday across 3 billion miles to scientists waiting breathlessly back home.Confirmation of mission success came 13 hours after the actual flyby.
New Horizon arrived at Pluto after an epic journey that began 9½ years ago, back when Pluto was still considered a full-fledged planet.
According to NASA, the spacecraft swept to within 7,700 miles of Pluto at 31,000 mph. The pictures from closest approach should be available starting Wednesday.
NASA spacecraft makes history as the first spacecraft to reach distant dwarf planet, the last unexplored world in solar system.
The probe shot past at more than 28,000mph (45,000 km/h) at 12.49pm BST (7.49am ET) on a trajectory that brought the fastest spacecraft ever to leave Earth’s orbit within 7,770 miles of Pluto’s surface.
The moment, played out on Tuesday to the sound of The Final Countdown by the 1980s glam metal band Europe, marked a historic achievement for the US, which can now claim to be the only nation to have visited every planet in the classical solar system.
John Grunsfeld, head of NASA'S science mission directorate, said that images beamed back from New Horizons on its approach showed Pluto to be an “extraordinarily interesting and complex world”.
NEW HORIZON SPACE CRAFT
The spacecraft sent word of its triumph Tuesday across 3 billion miles to scientists waiting breathlessly back home.Confirmation of mission success came 13 hours after the actual flyby.
New Horizon arrived at Pluto after an epic journey that began 9½ years ago, back when Pluto was still considered a full-fledged planet.
According to NASA, the spacecraft swept to within 7,700 miles of Pluto at 31,000 mph. The pictures from closest approach should be available starting Wednesday.
NASA spacecraft makes history as the first spacecraft to reach distant dwarf planet, the last unexplored world in solar system.
The probe shot past at more than 28,000mph (45,000 km/h) at 12.49pm BST (7.49am ET) on a trajectory that brought the fastest spacecraft ever to leave Earth’s orbit within 7,770 miles of Pluto’s surface.
The moment, played out on Tuesday to the sound of The Final Countdown by the 1980s glam metal band Europe, marked a historic achievement for the US, which can now claim to be the only nation to have visited every planet in the classical solar system.
John Grunsfeld, head of NASA'S science mission directorate, said that images beamed back from New Horizons on its approach showed Pluto to be an “extraordinarily interesting and complex world”.
NEW HORIZON SPACE CRAFT
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