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Scientists: It’s do or die time for America’s primacy exploring the Solar System: "When you turn off those spacecraft’s radio receivers, there's no way to turn them back on."


“When you turn off those spacecraft’s radio receivers, there’s no way to turn them back on.”…

A life-size replica of the New Horizons spacecraft on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia. A life-size replica of the New Horizons spacecraft on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia. Just last year, scientists announced the news that New Horizons found the Kuiper Belt—a vast outer zone of hundreds of thousands of small, icy worlds beyond the orbit of Neptune—might extend much farther out than previously thought.

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