The New Horizons team pores over the spacecraft's final picture of Pluto before making its closest approach on the morning of July 14, 2015.
Photograph by Michael Soluri
Alan Stern and the New Horizons team celebrate auspicious news: the spacecraft successfully flew through the Pluto system, filling its memory banks with data along the way.
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Alex Parker (centre) and other members of the New Horizons team joyously react to the latest images of Pluto.
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The sun rises expectantly over Cocoa Beach, Florida, on January 19, 2006—hours before New Horizons launched from nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station toward Pluto and beyond.
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On January 19, 2006, an Atlas V rocket launched New Horizons toward Pluto, as captured here by a remote camera 100 metres (300 feet) from the launchpad.
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New Horizons stands in mid-assembly at NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland. Two star trackers (right of centre) and the LORRI telescope (left of centre) seem to peer outward from the spacecraft's belly.
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LORRI's graphite baffle blocks stray light from getting inside the highly sensitive instrument.
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Uno Carlson (left) and Geffrey Ottman worked on the New Horizons spacecraft as power systems engineers.
Photograph by Michael Soluri
