On July 14th,th
e New Horizons spacecraft will make history when it sails past Pluto, previously k
nown as the ninth planet. Even more incredible is how fast we got th
ere. The spacecraft traveled 3 billio
n miles in nine and a half years. That’s approximately
a million miles a day for nearly ten years. How the heck did we acco
mplish it?Read more...
Source: gawker.com