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Aug 15 2005, 03:36 PM
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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 31 2006, 05:45 AM
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NASA never -- and I mean never -- put any Mercury orbiter anywhere in even the also-ran listings of its desired future planetary missions, until Chen-Wan Yen, in the late 1980s, came up with the complex but workable kind of multiple gravity-assist flyby setup that Messenger is now using. Until then it was thought to be far too expensive and complex for what (to quote Ken Croswell in 1991) "isn't a sexy planet." Indeed, I didn't hear a peep about Mercury as a possible high-priority target until the Discovery Program AOs started.
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