New Horizons Ultima Thule Flyby

New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, CO, along with other mission team members, waves American flags as he enters the main auditorium for a press conference, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. The New Horizons team received signals from the spacecraft that it is healthy and it collected data during the fly of Ultima Thule. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, CO, along with other mission team members, waves American flags as he enters the main auditorium for a press conference, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. The New Horizons team received signals from the spacecraft that it is healthy and it collected data during the fly of Ultima Thule. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)