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To Pluto and Beyond...NASA's Pluto probe launches
Spaceflight Now ^
| 19 January 2006
| Justin Ray
Posted on 01/19/2006 11:07:05 AM PST by Rockitz
NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto is underway. The spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 2 p.m. EST today. Follow the rocket's climb into space in our Mission Status Center.
TOPICS: Government; US: California; US: Colorado; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: charon; kuiperbelt; newhorizons; pluto; singingmoonriver; xplanets
Mission status at http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av010/status.html
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posted on
01/19/2006 11:07:06 AM PST
by
Rockitz
To: Rockitz
Congratulations to Lockheed-Martin and the NASA customer!
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posted on
01/19/2006 11:10:52 AM PST
by
Rockitz
(After all these years, it's still rocket science.)
To: Rockitz
It is on our NASA station. I am glad they did not have another delay.
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posted on
01/19/2006 11:13:43 AM PST
by
MamaB
(mom to an Angel)
To: Rockitz
Greetings to all Plutonians!!
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posted on
01/19/2006 11:14:33 AM PST
by
msnimje
(Senate Democrats ----------- Sound and Fury Signifying INSIGNIFICANCE)
To: Rockitz
It will be a successful mission as long as it doesn't circle Uranus and look for Klingons!
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posted on
01/19/2006 11:16:57 AM PST
by
zzen01
To: KevinDavis; Frank_Discussion; unibrowshift9b20; RightWhale; El Sordo; SauronOfMordor; ...
We can either project our vision of the future of space exploration or allow some other nation to project theirs.
Our choice is simple, Lead or Follow.
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posted on
01/19/2006 11:20:08 AM PST
by
tricky_k_1972
(Putting on Tinfoil hat and heading for the bomb shelter.)
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