NASA’s Deep Space Network has received confirmation that its New Horizons spacecraft did indeed complete a spectacular flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto.  More than 12 hours after its closest approach of some 7750 miles from Pluto’s icy surface, mission controllers announced that they had received a signal at 8:52 PM EDT tonight.

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