The mission that famously flew by Pluto to take detailed photographs is NASA's New Horizons. Launched in January 2006, New Horizons conducted a close flyby of Pluto in July 2015, providing the first-ever close-up images and detailed observations of the dwarf planet and its moons. This historic flyby revealed a wealth of information about Pluto's geology, atmosphere, and moons, vastly increasing our understanding of this distant world. New Horizons continued its journey into the Kuiper Belt, exploring other distant objects in the region, including the Kuiper Belt object 486958 Arrokoth in 2019.