Could NASA Get To Pluto Faster? Space Expert Says Yes - By Thinking Nuclear

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Image: In this artistacutes concept Pluto and its moon Charon are seen from the surface of one of Plutoacutes newly discovered candidate satellites. Credit: David A. Aguilar (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics).
Image: In this artist's concept, Pluto and its moon Charon are seen from the surface of one of Pluto's newly discovered candidate satellites. Credit: David A. Aguilar (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics).

As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft winds its way on a nine-year journey toward Pluto and the outer solar system, at least one expert wonders why such missions need to take so long.


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