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NASA spacecraft survives risky encounter with faraway world


January 2, 2019

Tampa: An unmanned NASA spacecraft sent a signal back to Earth Tuesday that it successfully made it through a risky flyby past the most distant planetary object ever studied, the US space agency said. “We have a healthy spacecraft,” said Alice Bowman, missions operations manager for the New Horizons spacecraft, which zipped by Ultima Thule at 12:33 am (0533 GMT) …

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