[FPSPACE] Mercury, twice in a lifetime

[David Woods]

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Subject: 	Mercury, twice in a lifetime
Date: 	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:14:37 -0500
From: 	LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at msn.com>
To: 	drwoods1 at earthlink.net



Bob Strom had begun to lose hope.

A veteran of NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s, he was 
bursting with questions that the Mariner flybys had raised about the little 
planet but couldn't answer.

"I've been hoping for another Mercury mission for 30 years, practically," 
said Strom, an expert on impact craters. But for decades, NASA seemed unable 
to make it happen.

"I really thought ... I'd never live to see Mercury again," he said.

But he did.

The rest of the story here:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.strom18jan18,0,7476919.story?coll=bal_tab01_layout