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the probe that phoned home from pluto, then kept walking.
means a nasa spacecraft that flew past pluto and a distant kuiper belt object, giving humanity its first close look at both.
from launched in 2006, the same year pluto got demoted from planet status, so new horizons spent nine years racing toward a world that technically didn't count anymore by the time it arrived.
launch year2006, fastest human-made object at liftoff
pluto flybyjuly 2015, closest approach 12,500 km
arrokoth visit2019, farthest object ever explored up close
onboard cargocarries some of clyde tombaugh's ashes