US spacecraft survives close encounter with Pluto

LAUREL, United States - NASA's New Horizons survived its historic flyby of Pluto, the US space agency said Tuesday after receiving a long-awaited signal from the spacecraft that it was still intact.

"We are in lock with telemetry on the spacecraft," said mission operations manager Alice Bowman, confirming that contact had been made with the spacecraft after a journey of three billion miles (4.8 billion kilometers).

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