Word of success came 10 hours after the middle-of-the-night encounter.
2 Jan 2019 8:15 AM IST
2 Jan 2019 8:14 AM IST
![Cheers erupted at Johns Hopkins Universitys Applied Physics Laboratory, home to Mission Control, as mission operations manager Alice Bowman declared: \We have a healthy spacecraft.\](https://s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/images.asianage.com/images/aa-Cover-s5buias5e81ikaitdhj0dd53t1-20190102081548.Medi.jpeg "Cheers erupted at Johns Hopkins Universitys Applied Physics Laboratory, home to Mission Control, as mission operations manager Alice Bowman declared: \We have a healthy spacecraft.\")
![Cheers erupted at Johns Hopkins Universitys Applied Physics Laboratory, home to Mission Control, as mission operations manager Alice Bowman declared: \We have a healthy spacecraft.\](https://s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/images.asianage.com/images/aa-Cover-s5buias5e81ikaitdhj0dd53t1-20190102081348.Medi.jpeg "Cheers erupted at Johns Hopkins Universitys Applied Physics Laboratory, home to Mission Control, as mission operations manager Alice Bowman declared: \We have a healthy spacecraft.\")
