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It's Pioneer 10, launched in March 1972. Pioneer 10 first explored the asteroid belt, then moved on to Jupiter. After that, it explored other outer planets and eventually went outside of the solar system, thus becoming the first spacecraft to flay past Pluto.

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New Horizons is the name of the spacecraft traveling to Pluto. It was launched in January 2006, and will arrive at Pluto in 2015.

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Galileo was the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter.

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The name of the first spacecraft to fly beyond the orbit of Pluto is Voyager I. It is the only known man made craft to leave the solar system.

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The New Horizons spacecraft did a flyby observation of Pluto (2015-2016) but did not land on the surface. as of 2017, it has been the only spacecraft to go to Pluto.

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It's called New Horizons.

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The "New Horizons"

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