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This image made available by NASA on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019 shows images with separate color and detail information, and a composited image of both, showing Ultima Thule, about 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft encountered it on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. (NASA via AP)

NASA: Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowman

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This Dec. 28, 2017 photo made available by SpaceX shows a Falcon Heavy rocket in Cape Canaveral, Fla. With more than 5 million pounds of liftoff thrust the Heavy will be capable of lifting super-size satellites into orbit and sending spacecraft to the moon, Mars and beyond. (SpaceX via AP)

SpaceX’s hot new monster rocket ready for first test flight

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This July 11, 2015, image provided by NASA shows Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft. On Tuesday, July 14, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will come closest to Pluto. New Horizons has traveled 3 billion miles over 9½ years to get to the historic point. (NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI via AP)

Pluto: Spacecraft makes flyby of icy, mystery world

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This July 11, 2015, image provided by NASA shows Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft. (Associated Press)

It’s showtime for Pluto; prepare to be amazed by NASA flyby

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

Wreckage lies near the site where a Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket, SpaceShipTwo, exploded and crashed in Mojave, Calif. Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. The explosion killed a pilot aboard and seriously injured another while scattering wreckage in Southern California's Mojave Desert, witnesses and officials said. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Can space industry survive 2 explosions in 4 days?

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

This image from video by KABC TV Los Angeles shows wreckage of what is believed to be SpaceShipTwo in Southern California's Mojave Desert on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. A Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket exploded after taking off on a test flight, a witness said Friday. (AP Photo/KABC TV)

Space tourism rocket crash stirs mixed emotions

By SETH BORENSTEIN and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

This image from video by KABC TV Los Angeles shows wreckage of what is believed to be SpaceShipTwo in Southern California's Mojave Desert on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. A Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket exploded after taking off on a test flight, a witness said Friday. (AP Photo/KABC TV)

Space tourism rocket crash stirs mixed emotions

By SETH BORENSTEIN and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

To the moon? Firm hopes to sell $1.5 billion trips

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

The moon viewed from the International Space Station orbiting 200 miles above Earth is still another 238,700 miles away. A team of former NASA executives is offering countries a two-person trip to the moon, either for research or national prestige — for a cool $1.5 billion. “It’s not about being first. It’s about joining the club,” former NASA associate administrator Alan Stern said. “We’re kind of cleaning up what NASA did in the 1960s. We’re going to make a commodity of it in the 2020s.” (Associated Press)

For $1.5B, new company offers a trip to the moon

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

To the moon? Firm hopes to sell $1.5 billion trips

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press