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Next Week Messenger Probe Will Become First Craft To Orbit Mercury
• popsci.comNASA’s intrepid Mercury observer, the Messenger satellite, is about to become the first spacecraft ever to orbit the first planet. The probe, which has already flown past the planet three times, will fire its thrusters March 17 so it can enter orbit