New Horizons checks in OK after Pluto flyby

8:56 PM Eastern Update: All hardware is healthy, and it looks like the expected amount of data was recorded during the flyby.

8:55 PM Eastern Update: "We are in lock with telemetry on the spacecraft." The room erupts in cheers.

Today, NASA made history by becoming the only space agency to explore all of the bodies in the classic Solar System. Decades in the making, the NASA-led New Horizons mission completed its historic flyby of Pluto and its five moons at 7:49am EDT. After traveling 9.5 years and over three billion miles, New Horizons was busy snapping pictures and collecting as much data as it could while it soared between the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon.