Aug. 21, 1989: Voyager 2 Reaches Triton
1989: Twelve years and one day after liftoff, Voyager 2 reaches Triton, the largest of Neptune’s eight moons and the coldest, most unusual satellite in our solar system. Launched from Cape Canaveral on...
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NASA successfully launches the New Horizons probe, beginning a 10-year mission to Pluto and other objects in the Kuiper Belt, a little-studied band of debris from the formation of the Solar System. The...
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