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Scott Kelly Recognizes Pluto Flyby from the Space Station
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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly sends his heartfelt best wishes and congratulations from the International Space Station to NASA’s New Horizons team for their flyby of Pluto today after a 9 year, 3 billion mile journey. Kelly is on a one-year journey around the Earth, performing important research that will help enable human visits to other worlds in the future. New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, July 14, about 7,750 miles above the surface -- roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth. Details: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-three-billion-mile-journey-to-pluto-reaches-historic-encounter
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