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Men’s Fashion Week, ‘Go Set a Watchman’ release, La Vigie performance art | July 14

Men’s Fashion Week, ‘Go Set a Watchman’ release, La Vigie performance art | July 14

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The day in photos from around the world.

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Pluto, up close: New Horizons historic fly-by

Pluto, up close: New Horizons historic fly-by

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Tuesday, mankind visits its first unexplored world since 1989 – and its last for a long time, if not ever.

The NASA spacecraft was scheduled to be 7,750 miles from the dwarf planet’s surface at precisely 7:49:59 a.m., the pinnacle of a 9 1/2-year, 3 billion-mile journey for the spacecraft designed, built and managed by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel.

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Reid Wiseman, Baltimore astronaut comes home

Reid Wiseman, Baltimore astronaut comes home

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NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, who was born and raised in the Baltimore area, recently completed a stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS). From May to November 2014, he literally had a window on the world as the space station circled in low orbit around Earth.

Now Wiseman is back visiting several locations in the region, including the Maryland Science Center, where he is displaying some of his amazing videos and pictures that he took during his stay on board the ISS.

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