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Alan Stern, project leader of the New Horizons mission that collected photos and data from Pluto last year:

We had to fly through one little window in space, that was only 60 by 100 miles across, and you could not arrive more than 9 minutes early or 9 minutes late after a 9-year journey. Somebody did the math and said that that aim is equivalent to hitting a golf ball from LA to New York and landing in a soup can in Manhattan.

Awesome.