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Pluto-bound probe is on its way

21 January 2006 [00:33] - TODAY.AZ
It is boldly going where no spacecraft has gone before!

EuroNews reports that after two failed attempts, the NASA probe New Horizons has finally got off the ground. It is on its way to Pluto - the only unexplored planet in the solar system. Lift-off should have happened on Tuesday but high winds at the launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida put paid to that. Then on Wednesday a power cut at mission control in Maryland caused a postponement.

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