> From: Alberto Monteiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > There's a huge waste of Delta-V [or fuel] by launching > things in a straight line towards planets. The most
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You know, it's really nice having actual rocket scientists on this list. Especially ones who can explain stuff in such a way that non-scientists like me can actually understand it.
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Not only that, but we have so many of them that you may get an answer from one of them before one of the others sees the question . . .
For information on the MESSENGER spacecraft scheduled to be launched next March to orbit Mercury, go to:
<<http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/>>
(Sorry, Alberto, it's not going by way of Jupiter, unless Velikovsky was correct. ;-b )
-- Ronn! :)
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