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Stand by for telemetry. Alice Bowman, mission operations manager of NASA's New Horizons, flyby of Pluto.

And I'm Steve Merski for Scientific American Science Talk podcast.

Bowman is talking just after the Mission Control Center at the Johns Hopkins University

Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, received radio confirmation at 8.52 p.m. July 14th,

that the spacecraft was still in good shape after passing Pluto.

The ship had been out of communication for almost 21 and a half hours

so that it could concentrate on gathering data.

So destruction by space debris or a simple malfunction

could have happened hours ago without the team's knowledge.

Now the probe was finally checking in,

a message sent from so far away that at the

speed of light, it had taken some four and a half hours to arrive. Okay, copy that. We're in

lock with telemetry with the spacecraft. Then Bowman checks in with the team members monitoring the probes individual subsystems.

They call Bowman mom for mission, operations, manager.

And when they say nominal, that's good.

Okay, to look at subsystems as you get enough.

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