New Horizons, a piano-sized spacecraft, blastedoff from Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 2 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006, on a 3-billion mile journey to study Pluto, the solar system's newly-classified "dwarf planet," and examine a mysterious zone of icy celestial objects at the outer edges of the planetary system.
(Photo: CBS/NASA)
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