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Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft gets boost from Jupiter

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of Jupiter early Wednesday, using the massive planet’s gravity to pick up speed on its 3-billion mile voyage to Pluto and the unexplored Kuiper Belt region beyond.

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