158E-170-Encounter with Pluto - podcast episode cover

158E-170-Encounter with Pluto

Dec 07, 20212 min
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Episode description

After 9 years, 3 billion miles, and 18 sleeping periods NASA gave a wake up call to the New Horizons when it was 135 million miles from the Pluto system.  After more than 8 hours of waiting, NASA engineers were ecstatic to receive a message from the New Horizons stating that "I am fine and ready to go forward with an encounter with Pluto".
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