Mar 10 2011

From The Space Library

MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-052 NASA MEDIA TELECON PREVIEWS FIRST SPACECRAFT TO ORBIT MERCURY

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 15, to discuss the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury. NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, or MESSENGER, will enter orbit at approximately 9 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 17. The spacecraft has conducted more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system for the past 6.6 years. Media teleconference participants are: -- Andy Calloway, MESSENGER mission operations manager, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md. -- Carl Engelbrecht, MESSENGER propulsion subsystem lead, APL -- Sean Solomon, MESSENGER principal investigator, Carnegie Institution of Washington

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