Messinger made it! Launched 6 1/2 years ago on a voyage of some 95 million miles, Messinger was successfully inserted into it's planned orbit around the planet Mercury at approximately 7:00 p.m. EDT last night. It will be a few days before NASA turns on the instruments aboard Messinger and begins to collect data. In the meantime, click on the link in their message and read about what NASA hopes to learn from this historic mission. Robert E Paty, Scottsdale, AZ aka Mad Hatter From: snglist@snglist.msfc.nasa.gov To: snglist@snglist.msfc.nasa.gov Subject: Historic First: A Spacecraft Orbits Mercury Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:41:53 -0600 NASA Science News for March 18, 2011 NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft successfully achieved orbit around Mercury at approximately 9 p.m. EDT on March 17th. This marks the first time a spacecraft has orbited the solar system's innermost planet. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/18mar_orbitmercury/ This is a free service. To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.msfc.nasa.gov/u?id=133594N&n=T&l=snglist or send a blank email to leave-snglist-133594N@lyris.msfc.nasa.gov
Amazing, simply amazing. Space has always been something that I have been interested in. My question is 'how did they do that'. How can they send a message to a spaceship? How did they do that. How can Nasa control something so far away? How did they know how to build it? Amazing. Barb tipperboo12@msn.com > From: dback1935@msn.com > To: an-internet-family@googlegroups.com; homespun@rootsweb.com; memory-lane@rootsweb.com > Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:57:02 -0700 > Subject: [ML] FW: Historic First: A Spacecraft Orbits Mercury > > > Messinger made it! Launched 6 1/2 years ago on a voyage of some 95 million miles, Messinger was successfully inserted into it's planned orbit around the planet Mercury at approximately 7:00 p.m. EDT last night. It will be a few days before NASA turns on the instruments aboard Messinger and begins to collect data. In the meantime, click on the link in their message and read about what NASA hopes to learn from this historic mission. > > Robert E Paty, Scottsdale, AZ aka Mad Hatter > > > > > > From: snglist@snglist.msfc.nasa.gov > To: snglist@snglist.msfc.nasa.gov > Subject: Historic First: A Spacecraft Orbits Mercury > Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:41:53 -0600 > > NASA Science News for March 18, 2011 > > NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft successfully achieved orbit around Mercury at approximately 9 p.m. EDT on March 17th. This marks the first time a spacecraft has orbited the solar system's innermost planet. > FULL STORY at > > http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/18mar_orbitmercury/ > > This is a free service. > > To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.msfc.nasa.gov/u?id=133594N&n=T&l=snglist > or send a blank email to leave-snglist-133594N@lyris.msfc.nasa.gov > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message