00:00On this day, in space.
00:04On January 19th, 2006, NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto.
00:09New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano,
00:12and it became the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto.
00:15It launched from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas V rocket,
00:17and was the fastest spacecraft ever launched.
00:20The trip to Pluto took nine years, and it was worth the wait.
00:24New Horizons took the first close-up pictures of Pluto,
00:27and for the first time, the world saw that Pluto has an enormous heart.
00:31It also saw huge, steep mountains and icy volcanoes.
00:35After the flyby, New Horizons set sail for a distant icy rock called MU69.
00:40And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:43NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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