Thread: NASA Launches Spacecraft to Mercury

Cool!

The spacecraft cannot fly straight to Mercury; it does not carry nearly enough fuel. So it will fly once past Earth, twice past Venus and three times past Mercury for gravity assists — and make 15 loops around the sun — before slowing enough to slip into orbit around the small, hot planet.

That's correct just as the news states.


It's to bad it can't fly directly into the planet. Oh well.

At least they're making a trip out there.

Originally Posted by Johnnny

It's to bad it can't fly directly into the planet.

That might hurt.

MaxMirkin

That might hurt.

Yeah I know it was a joke, but you can figure out what I meant.

I meant fly into the planet's atmosphere & land on the planet.

Funny thing is we dont know jack about Mercury. We'll shortly know more about Saturn then Mercury. And its the rocky inner planets that can tell us most about the formation of the solar system and the possability of life elsewhere. If there is one date I remember more then any other its 20 Jul 1969 when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Man you should have felt what a feeling that was seeing an American walk on the moon. That really was the foundation of the pride in my people/country. How bout that NASA eh?

I pray I get to see Americans walking on Mars before I croak............take care...........Rich

Rich46yo

Funny thing is we dont know jack about Mercury. We'll shortly know more about Saturn then Mercury. And its the rocky inner planets that can tell us most about the formation of the solar system and the possability of life elsewhere. If there is one date I remember more then any other its 20 Jul 1969 when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Man you should have felt what a feeling that was seeing an American walk on the moon. That really was the foundation of the pride in my people/country. How bout that NASA eh?

I pray I get to see Americans walking on Mars before I croak............take care...........Rich

That's true about not know a lot about Mercury.

That must've been cool seeing Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.

But I hear ya about ppl on Mars. I'd like to see that to.

Originally Posted by Rich46yo

If there is one date I remember more then any other its 20 Jul 1969 when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

I heard it was staged.