History Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:09:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png History Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 An Obscure Anniversary of July 4, 1776 https://spacenews.com/an-obscure-anniversary-of-july-4-1776/ https://spacenews.com/an-obscure-anniversary-of-july-4-1776/#respond Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:09:42 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=443217 Enhanced color global view of Pluto, taken in 2015 when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft was 280,000 miles away. Credit: NASA
Enhanced color global view of Pluto, taken in 2015 when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft was 280,000 miles away. Credit: NASA

As of June 14, 2024, exactly one year has passed on Pluto since the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

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