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- It's been a long time coming. New Horizons was launched in 2006. The spacecraft, roughly the size of a baby grand piano, rode atop a massive rocket that hurled it away from Earth faster than any spacecraft before it.
TheVenerableCain · 3483 days ago · link ·
I have to imagine that the anticipation and fear of failure is something akin to what I experience in Kerbal Space Program multiplied by 1000. A decade is a long time to wait to get a single shot.