Launchpad: New Horizons Heads Towards Pluto

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Find out about the fastest spacecraft to ever leave Earth's orbit. See what information scientists hope to gain from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it hurls through space. Check out the instruments that will help us get our first up-close look at Pluto.

Published on: November 09, 2010

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NASA; NASA eClips; NIA; Launchpad; New Horizons; spacecraft; Pluto; solar system; Kuiper Belt; spectrometer; solar winds; volcanoes, High School, science, technology, engineering, math, STEM, education, video, Allen Lunsford, Instruments, camera, dust, Io,