NASA’s New Horizon and an historic flyby

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 NASA’s New Horizon team is preparing for a historic first — a flyby of a distant icy dwarf planet 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. Chief scientist Alan Stern says scientists hope to learn something about how the planets in our solar system formed. But the mission will be a difficult one. Host Carol Hills explains.

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