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 At 2 p.m. Eastern time on January 19th. 2006. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft began its decade-long 

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 journey to Pluto from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. 

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 The spacecraft rode aboard a Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket. headed for a distant rendezvous with the mysterious celestial body. 

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 The historic 3-billion-mile voyage has already taken New Horizons over the storms and around the moons of Jupiter. 

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 The spacecraft will shed light on new kinds of worlds only just discovered on the outskirts of the solar system. 

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 As Pluto gets closer by the day. New Horizons continues into rare territory. as just the fifth probe to traverse 

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 interplanetary space so far from the Sun. The New Horizons spacecraft is well on its way 

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 to its dramatic fly-by of the icy world and its moons in July 2015. 

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