00:00 On this day in space.
00:04 On January 19th, 2006, NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto.
00:09 New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano and it became the first spacecraft
00:13 to fly by Pluto.
00:15 It launched from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas V rocket and was the fastest spacecraft ever
00:19 launched.
00:20 The trip to Pluto took nine years and it was worth the wait.
00:24 New Horizons took the first close-up pictures of Pluto and for the first time the world
00:28 saw that Pluto has an enormous heart.
00:31 It also saw huge steep mountains and icy volcanoes.
00:34 After the flyby, New Horizons set sail for a distant icy rock called MU69.
00:38 And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:42 NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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