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curiousuburb
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Join Date: May 2004
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2011-03-17, 18:28

Mercury Orbit Insertion Live Webcast at 7:55 EDT



NASA TV will be streaming coverage of the event.

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March 17, 2011
MESSENGER Orbit Maneuver a "Go"
With less than six hours to go, MESSENGER is on schedule for its 8:45 p.m. (EDT) rendezvous with Mercury. “The command sequence containing instructions to maneuver MESSENGER into orbit about Mercury is now executing, the science instruments have been turned off, and the propulsion system is conditioned for its big show this evening,” says MESSENGER Project Manager Peter Bedini.
If you can pull yourself away from pending bombing of Libya or reactor and post quake/tsunami recovery in Japan, we're about to orbit the innermost planet.

Go Messenger!

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