The scene Wednesday morning when NASA scientists received a close-up photo of Pluto from the New Horizons probe was euphoric. The photos was the first of many that will form a detailed mosaic. CCTV’s Jim Spellman filed this report from Washington.
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Check out the reaction on Twitter, both good, bad and jokingly, of the NASA spacecraft’s approach to Pluto and the photos that came of it.

Our 3-billion-mile journey to Pluto reaches historic #PlutoFly! Details & the high-res image: http://t.co/qX7KpXIUUQ pic.twitter.com/LDjXLtPdly

— NASA (@NASA) July 14, 2015

Stephen Colbert Begged Neil deGrasse Tyson to Make Pluto a Planet Again http://t.co/w6EoEGqFKr pic.twitter.com/yUS1c4Y7OM

— Esquire Magazine (@esquire) July 15, 2015

Stephen Hawking on Pluto mission: "We explore because we are human and we want to know" 📻 http://t.co/9i5zxdB07O pic.twitter.com/VS8wz20x2A

— BBC World Service (@bbcworldservice) July 15, 2015

Day 110 On 2nd look #Pluto you look like a planet. Sorry I doubted you. Good night from @space_station! #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/HzXuOHAJC6

— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) July 15, 2015

Can't wait to see the pictures of Pluto…. oh right a bunch of boring rocks like everything else in space DISCOVER SOME ALIENS PLEASE

— Brian Gaar (@briangaar) July 15, 2015

Pluto is great if you like non-planets without any cool robots on the surface doing a science.

— SarcasticRover (@SarcasticRover) July 15, 2015

"Pluto’s atmosphere is being lost in space. It’s lost about 300 meters of nitrogen," says #PlutoFlyby P.I. Alan Stern pic.twitter.com/0hZA8ZjcFh

— NASA New Horizons (@NASANewHorizons) July 15, 2015

Thanks to @NASA, for the first time in human history, we can see this small piece of God's creation up close. #Pluto pic.twitter.com/QeSwIqfafG

— Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) July 15, 2015

Story compiled by CCTV America and CCTV America Digital