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Orbiting Mercury: The message of Messenger

Impact: Space Exploration    April 1, 2011
Messenger orbital trajectory…..Credit: NASA For the first time in perhaps two billion years the planet Mercury has a satellite. This moonless planet, which is itself smaller than many moons in the solar system and whose surface looks very much like Earth’s Moon, now has a tiny metallic canister in orbit around it, the Messenger space [...]
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Spaceport America, not far from Truth or Consequences

Spun: February 22, 2010
If you think that U.S. President Obama’s new initiative for space – not only for NASA, but also for the nascent private space industry – is a chimera, well, check out this article in the New York Times: A New Exit to Space Readies for Business. The article, with tongue moving quickly from cheek to [...]
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