NASA spacecraft halfway between Pluto and next smaller stop

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is now halfway between Pluto and its next much, much smaller stop.
New Horizons — which reached the milestone this week — is bound for an even more remote object called 2014 MU69. Like Pluto, the object orbits in our solar system’s twilight zone known as the Kuiper Belt, but is barely 1 percent its size. MU69 is nearly 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto.
The spacecraft will swoop past MU69