NASA probe circling the moon on New Year's Eve

PASADENA (AP) -- As planet Earth rang in the new year, a different kind of countdown was happening at the moon. After a 3 ½-month journey, a NASA spacecraft flew over the moon's south pole, fired its engine and dropped into orbit Saturday in the first of two back-to-back arrivals over the New Year ...

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