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On This Day In Space July 14, 2015 New Horizons Spacecraft Flies By Pluto

On July 14, 2015, a spacecraft flew by Pluto for the first time! NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft spent 9.5 years making the 3-billion-mile journey to Pluto. When it finally arrived, it took some amazing photos of the dwarf planet’s surface. Most notably, the photos revealed that Pluto has a huge, heart-shaped plain, tall mountains and …

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On This Day In Space July 13, 1969 Soviet Union Launches Luna 15 Moon Mission

On July 13, 1969, the Soviet Union launched its Luna 15 spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Luna 15 was a robotic sample return mission sent to retrieve some lunar soil and bring it back to Earth. It launched just three days before Apollo 11, which brought the first astronauts to the lunar surface. …

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