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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by AndrewR: [qb] We've only been to Mercury ONCE and only have mapped 45% of the surface. We need to go to Pluto and Charon... is the mission still on for that? We need Galileo/Cassini type missions to Uranus and Neptune. [/qb][/QUOTE][URL=http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/]MESSENGER[/URL] will launch for Mercury in May, do some flybys of Venus and Mercury, and settle into orbit of Mercury in 2009. (Why so long? It has to do with changing delta-V closer into the sun, and shedding momentum.) [URL=http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/]New Horizons[/URL] , to Pluto, Charon, and Kuiper belt, is scheduled for launch in Jan '06 As for other Planetary missions... Well, that's why you need to elect [b]ME[/b] in 2008 instead of these bozos. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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