PLUTO PLAN
NASA picked a team headed by Southwest Research Institute to enter preliminary design studies for a mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt set for launch in 2006 (see illustration). The ``New Horizons'' mission would fly by Pluto well before 2020, when the planet's atmosphere will begin to precipitate...
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