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Aug 15 2005, 03:36 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 212 Joined: 19-July 05 Member No.: 442 |
While the likelyhood of a Mercury Lander mission is very low, I was wondering if any planning/studies have been done on such a project?
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May 30 2006, 06:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
In this 1971 book, Beyond the Moon: Future Explorations in Interplanetary Space
by C. B. Colby, there is a chart of then future planetary missions: http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~jsisson/beyond.htm For Mercury, they indicate an orbiter for 1982. Was there ever an actual plan to orbit Mercury in the early 1980s? Of course the chart also declares a manned lunar base in 1978 and manned expeditions to Venus and Mars in 1982 and 1981, respectively. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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