On January 19, 2006, New Horizons was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
It took NASA's New Horizons spacecraft about 9.5 years to reach Pluto since its launch in January 2006. New Horizons completed its closest flyby of Pluto in July 2015, providing valuable data and imagery of the dwarf planet.
The probe that is headed to Pluto is called New Horizons. It was launched by NASA in 2006 to study Pluto and its moons.
New Horizons
The New Horizons spacecraft is currently over halfway to Pluto, and set to arrive in 2015.
The New Horizons spacecraft, which completed its Pluto flyby in 2016.
It's not a shuttle. The spacecraft New Horizons is on its way to Pluto.
Robots have not landed on Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft has only observed Pluto from orbit.
The New Horizons spacecraft. It will reach Pluto July 14th 2015.
None. The New Horizons spacecraft only observed Pluto from orbit.
The space probe New Horizons was launched 19th January 2006, and is expected to arrive at Pluto 14th July 2015. A journey time of nearly 9 years 6 months.
No probes have been to Pluto yet, but the New Horizons probe is currently on the way there.
We won't find out until New horizons gets there.