Pluto Mission Spacecraft Shipped to NASA

The first spacecraft designed to study Pluto, the solar system's farthest planet, took the first steps on a long journey today when it was shipped from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md. - where it was designed and built - to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for its next round of pre-launch tests.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news4519.html">Pluto Mission Spacecraft Shipped to NASA</a></p> <p>The first spacecraft designed to study Pluto, the solar system's farthest planet, took the first steps on a long journey today when it was shipped from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md. - where it was designed and built - to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for its next round of pre-launch tests.</p>