The greatest news to bring in the new year was that the NASA spacecraft successfully explored its first Kuiper Belt object

The greatest news to bring in the new year was that the NASA spacecraft successfully explored its first Kuiper Belt object
New Horizons overtook Voyager 1’s record of most distant image ever taken from Earth
On the 1 January 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft will make a flyby of a Kuiper Object over four billion miles away from Earth
The NASA mission reached a major milestone this week when the last bits of science data from its flyby – arrived safely on Earth