HOUSTON—NASA’s New Horizons mission team greeted the first signals on Jan. 1, confirming their spacecraft had successfully carried out its preprogrammed close flyby of Ultima Thule, the most distant celestial object ever visited by a human spacecraft. Among the post-encounter data flow was a blurry...
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