MESSENGER Team Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Launch
Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 07, 2014 - Ten years ago, on August 3, 2004, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, for a risky mission that would take the small satellite dangerously close to Mercury's surface, paving the way for an ambitious study of the planet closest to the Sun. The spacecraft traveled 4.9 billion miles (7.9 billion kilometers) - a journey that included 15 trips around the Sun an ... more
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