NOVA captures New Horizons' historic flyby of Pluto, the culmination of the spacecraft's nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to reveal the first ever detailed images of this strange, icy world at the very edge of our solar system.

Originally released by Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), 2015. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on December 15, 2015.

NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft --(3:02) -- Popular Pluto -- (3:33) -- Kuiper Belt -- (2:40) -- The Kuiper Airborne Observatory -- (3:07) -- Fingerprints of Atoms & Molecules -- (4:16) -- Jupiter's Gravitational Assist -- (4:00) -- Protest for Pluto -- (3:54) -- Discovering the Kuiper Belt -- (3:46) -- Classifying a Planet -- (3:10) -- Process of Planetary Formation -- (2:12) -- Potential for Biology -- (3:38) -- Mission Debris Hazards -- (3:21) -- New Horizons Wakes Up -- (3:46) -- Full Frame Image of Pluto -- (3:59) -- Final Hurdle -- (2:02) -- Credits: Chasing Pluto -- (1:31).