The Latest: NASA spacecraft dashes by world beyond Pluto

LAUREL, Md. (AP) — The Latest on NASA's New Horizons' New Year rendezvous (all times local):

10: 40 a.m.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has survived humanity's most distant exploration of another world.

Ten hours after the middle-of-the-night encounter 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away, flight controllers in Laurel, Maryland, received word from the spacecraft late Tuesday morning. Cheers erupted at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, home to Mission Control.

An anxious spill-over crowd in a nearby auditorium joined in the loud celebration.

New Horizons zoomed pas...