04. How many years would it take a typical spacecraft to reach Pluto? (A K2S Question)

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We hope to launch the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto in January 2006, and with luck we'll get to Pluto nine and one-half years later, in July 2015. The journey might take a couple of years longer, depending on the exact day that we launch.

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Answer provided by Dr. John Spencer, Ph.D.

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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