NASA celebrated with great joy a turning point in space history.
Nine years after its launch, U.S. spacecraft New Horizons payed its first visit to Pluto.
New Horizons already sent the most detailed picture of the dwarf planet.
You can see here NASA staff from mission control center in Maryland reacting at the news that the spacecraft is getting closer to its target.
New Horizons passed some 12 thousand kilometers from Pluto. NASA scientists are pending now for new photos from the space probe.