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New Horizons spacecraft survives historic flyby of dwarf planet Pluto [i]NASA's New Horizons probe successfully flew past Pluto on Tuesday (July 14), becoming the first spacecraft in history to visit the orangish-red dwarf planet. The flyby crowned humanity's first reconnaissance of the solar system's nine major worlds. The piano-sized probe made its closest approach of 7,750 miles (12,500 km) to Pluto at 7:49 a.m. EDT (1149 GMT), collecting imagery and science data as it soared past the small planet. About nine hours later, New Horizons turned its antenna dish away from the Pluto system and towards Earth so that it could "phone home" to confirm it survived the historic encounter. That highly-anticipated call was received at 8:53 p.m. EDT (0053 GMT) to the visible and vocal elation of the mission operations and science team at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland.[/i]
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