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Spacecraft Bound for Pluto Set to Awake Nine Years After Launch
ABC News ^ | Dec 1, 2014, 5:03 PM ET | By JOHN FISCHER

Posted on 12/02/2014 2:06:45 PM PST by Red Badger

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PHOTO: Members of the media garbed in protective uniforms view NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on Nov. 4, 2005 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida

PHOTO: An artist's concept shows the New Horizons's Spacecraft approaching Pluto.

PHOTO: A Hubble Space Telescope image released by NASA in 2006 shows Pluto and three of it's five moons.

A drawing shows the New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in July 2015. NASA

1 posted on 12/02/2014 2:06:46 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv; KevinDavis

Space Ping!..............


2 posted on 12/02/2014 2:07:13 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

MORE INFO:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons


3 posted on 12/02/2014 2:08:42 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

Will I dream??????


4 posted on 12/02/2014 2:08:54 PM PST by al baby (Hi MomÂ…)
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To: Red Badger

Let’s celebrate by making Pluto a planet again.


5 posted on 12/02/2014 2:10:48 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: al baby

Of what?.............


6 posted on 12/02/2014 2:10:57 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger
Bookmarker
7 posted on 12/02/2014 2:11:04 PM PST by mikrofon (Astro BUMP)
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To: Red Badger

Somebody get the coffee started.


8 posted on 12/02/2014 2:11:16 PM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: colorado tanker

Once a planet always a planet..............


9 posted on 12/02/2014 2:11:35 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger
Would love that! Nine years asleep ... Who could ask for more than Rapunzel ... Loving the nine years.
10 posted on 12/02/2014 2:11:51 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Red Badger

Danger, Will Robinson...

11 posted on 12/02/2014 2:12:00 PM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%...unless you're donating blood.)
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To: no-to-illegals

You mean Rip Van Winkle?............


12 posted on 12/02/2014 2:14:14 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

I’m forever amazed at what we are capable of accomplishing.......


13 posted on 12/02/2014 2:14:37 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Alexander Graham Bell's famous words: "Answer the damn phone you idiot!")
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To: Red Badger

Yes, you are correct ... Just lookin’ for Santa Claws!


14 posted on 12/02/2014 2:15:13 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Hot Tabasco

It’s just the start.
As soon as we figure out how to get past that ‘Speed of Light’ thingy..............


15 posted on 12/02/2014 2:15:47 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

Grandma is in a coma at the North Pole. Her head is in Mississippi.


16 posted on 12/02/2014 2:17:38 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Hot Tabasco
I’m forever amazed at what we are capable of accomplishing.......

Yup, NASA's muslim outreach really paid off...</sarc>

17 posted on 12/02/2014 2:18:09 PM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%...unless you're donating blood.)
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To: Red Badger

It is floating across the ceiling ....


18 posted on 12/02/2014 2:19:49 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Red Badger

So, is Pluto a planet or not?


19 posted on 12/02/2014 2:23:29 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: colorado tanker

Pluto was a planet when the mission began.


20 posted on 12/02/2014 2:24:42 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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