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Messenger En Route To Mercury

Posted by timothy on from the luggage-is-going-to-phoenix dept.

Soft writes "NASA's Messenger space probe has lifted off on its second try on a Delta 2-Heavy rocket. As mentioned earlier on Slashdot, it is poised to orbit Mercury in 2011 after three flybys, as well as two flybys of Venus and one of Earth for course corrections. It will be the first probe to visit the innermost planet since Mariner 10 in 1974 and 1975. Stories on the BBC and SpaceflightNow."

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  1. CONGRATULATIONS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Heil Hitler!

    1. Re:CONGRATULATIONS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Heil du ihn.

  2. NASA's messenger to Mercury... by jkrise · · Score: -1, Troll

    Looks like Microsoft is using it's influence with the space agency to promote it's service in Mercury!

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  3. Second try? by tcdk · · Score: -1, Troll

    So the rocket didn't try hard enough the first time or what? Stupid write up.

    Do or do not... [come now, all together]... there is no try!

    (With rockets, if you try and don't succed there definitly isn't a second try).

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  4. that long? by tommeke100 · · Score: -1, Troll

    so, euhm, correct me if I'm wrong.
    Mercury is closest to the sun.
    So, it's not that far away from earth (considering other planets like Jupiter and Saturnus).
    Is it going to take 7 freaking years to get to that burned rock ???????

  5. GNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Gay Nigger Astronauts Association

  6. Re:Useful tip for the NASA engineers .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Useful tip for you... Here