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Mercury probe BepiColombo thrusters are acting up, but science marches on
The BepiColombo spacecraft is to make a closer-than-planned flyby of Mercury this week, whizzing past the planet at ...
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SPACE: Mercury Astronauts
As soon as the U.S. decided to go ahead with Project Mercury, the first missile-borne man-in-space capsule (TIME, Jan. 26), the Pentagon’s IBM machines began sorting through Air Force and Navy ...
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Aerospace: Mercury’s Father
Largely because McDonnell farsightedly started designing space capsules long before Washington asked for them, his company won the coveted Mercury contract, a $130 million program. It has turned ...