How much does it cost to map the solar system?

Nasa’s Pluto mission cost $700m. But that's cheap compared to some of Nasa's more famous missions. Here, Mischa Frankl-Duval looks at the price of the final frontier.

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Pluto, as seen by the New Horizons flypast

Almost ten years after it was launched, Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft this week performed a historic flyby of Pluto, skimming just 7,700 miles from the its surface.

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Mischa graduated from New College, Oxford in 2014 with a BA in English Language and Literature. He joined MoneyWeek as an editor in 2014, and has worked on many of MoneyWeek’s financial newsletters. He also writes for MoneyWeek magazine and MoneyWeek.com.