A view from the Mission Operations Center (MOC) a few hours before the New Horizons team hopes to receive confirmation from the spacecraft that it has completed its July 14 flyby of Pluto.

Working at the APL media center for the New Horizons mission for more than twelve hours can make it difficult to judge just how interesting the Pluto flyby is to the general public.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...