New data received from New Horizons spacecraft wins applauds

Guests applaud New Horizons team members after they received signals from the New Horizons spacecraft that it is healthy and it collected data during a fly-by of Ultima Thule, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, at the Mission Operations Center at the APL in Laurel, Md. The spacecraft survived a journey to near the tiny, icy object called Ultima Thule, about 4 billion miles from Earth. [Photo: NASA via AP/Bill Ingalls]