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One year on Mercury is 87 Earth days. Mercury moves so fast around the Sun that it only takes three Mercury days (axis spins) for two Mercury years (trips around the Sun) to pass ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - MERCURY

... of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 62 62 '''Page ''' - 362-368 '''Year''' - 2009 '''Keywords''' - Mercury, electric propulsion, recovery strategies '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2009.62.362 '''Number of Pages''' - 7 Abstract ... a robust mission design which might successfully cope with critical events during the flight to Mercury. This paper deals with the analysis of failure scenarios along the BepiColombo trajectory. It proposes ...

... evidence of frozen water ice at the poles in craters that never see the Sun. Mercury has a higher iron percentage than any other object in the solar system. The core of Mercury is very large compared to the rest of the planet. ---- Answer provided by Laura Peckyno ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - MERCURY

... Sciences announced that Soviet scientists had successfully bounced first radar signals off planet Mercury. Performed last summer when Mercury was 52-54 million mi. from earth, experiment was credited with confirming ... of an ‘absolute’ weapon there for the conduct of interplanetary nuclear war.” ''(Krasnaya Zvezda, 1/4/63,3)'' January 1963 January Jan 1 1963 1 Jan 2 1963 2 Jan ...

... xprize.org/ansari-x-prize (accessed 12 May 2009); Scaled Composites , “ SpaceShipOne Captures X-Prize,” 4 October 2004,http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/041004_spaceshipone_x-prize_flight_2.html ... died at age 77 in Ventura, California. One of the original seven astronauts for the Mercury program, the United States' first human spaceflight program, Cooper was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, on ...

At an Space Task Group STG staff meeting, Director Robert R. Gilruth suggested that study should be made of a post- Mercury spacecraft Mercury program in which maneuverable Mercury spacecraft would make land landings in limited areas. ''Memorandum, Paul E. Purser to Gilruth, "Log for the Week of June 1, 1959," p. 4.''

... The Launch of John Glenn and Friendship 7 Mercury Atlas 6 Pilot Debriefing 1 March 7 1962 Mercury Atlas 6 Pilot Debriefing 2 March 7 1962 John Glenn Interview May 16th 1962 ... NASA Mission Reports - edited by Robert Godwin Results of the 1st Manned Orbital Space Flight Mercury Atlas 6/Friendship 7 February 20 1962 File:Friendship7.mp4 '''Friendship 7 1962 ...

The ancient Sumerians originally named Mercury Ubu-Idim-gud-ud. The ancient Greeks, thinking it was actually two different planets, called ... sky and Apollo when in the morning sky. Finally, the Romans named the planet after Mercury, the Roman god of trade, commerce, and most importantly, swiftness. ---- Answer provided by Laura Peckyno ...

... that Earth is away from the Sun. At its furthest point away from the Sun, Mercury is almost halfway between the Earth and the Sun. ---- Answer provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - MERCURY

... planet despite being the closest to the Sun. The average temperature on the surface of Mercury is 354° F but it can range from as hot as 800° F ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - MERCURY

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