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120 seconds in Pluto’s shadow

A nerve-wracking path correction put a 747 on course to measure Pluto’s skies

SOFIA test flight

SCOPE’S ON A PLANE  A 2.5-meter-wide telescope peers through an opening on SOFIA during a 2010 test flight over the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. 

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By Christopher Crockett

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