On this date: NASA selects contractor to build Mercury capsule
NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first ...
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BepiColombo snaps Mercury's dark craters and volcanic plains
The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of ...
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SPACE: Lead-Footed Mercury
Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of the type that is supposed to carry the first astronaut into orbit some time in late 1961. Instead of soaring 200 miles ...
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BepiColombo spacecraft flies by Mercury, sees volcanic plain and impact craters
BepiColombo just imaged Mercury in a whole new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise. On the spacecraft's fifth flyby of Mercury earlier this month (out of a planned six flybys) BepiColombo ...
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BepiColombo spacecraft flies by Mercury, sees volcanic plain and impact craters
On the spacecraft's fifth flyby of Mercury earlier this month (out of a planned six flybys) BepiColombo pointed its Mercury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer (MERTIS) at a swath of ...