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Fifty years ago today, the United States was embarking at the beginning of an era of exploration of the solar system that will live

forever in history.

50 years ago today, the first spacecraft flew by Mars.

It's called Mariner 4.

And I think it's fitting that on that 50th anniversary, we complete the initial reconnaissance

of the planets with the exploration of Pluto. That's Alan Stern, principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, and I'm

Steve Murksky for a Scientific American Science Talk podcast. At just before a 7.50 a.m.

this morning, Eastern Daylight Time, July 14, 2015, the New Horizon spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto.

After a nine and a half year, three billion mile voyage, the ship got within about 7,750 miles from the surface.

Exciting data, including images far more resolved than anything we've ever had before have started coming in.

At 8.15 this morning, Alan Stern was joined by Alice Bowman, mission operations manager, and

John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator for the NASA Science Mission Directorate

at a press conference at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

Here's an edited version of the audio from that event. You'll also hear the voice of Dwayne

Brown from NASA's Office of Communications. Back now to Alan Stern, principal investigator of NASA's

New Horizons mission to Pluto. A big team of people worked 15 years to do this.

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