Urgent: NASA Launches MESSENGER Spacecraft to Explore Mercury
Posted on: Wednesday, 4 August 2004, 06:00 CDT
Urgent: NASA launches MESSENGER spacecraft to explore Mercury
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- NASA launched its MESSENGER spacecraft early Tuesday, for the first mission of this kind in 30 years to explore Mercury, the least-explored and the closest planet to the Sun.
MESSENGER was launched as planned aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket at 2:16 a.m. EDT (0616 GMT) Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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