[amsat-bb] On-line Coverage of Messenger Crash into Mercury Today

[Personal]

Venera 7 soft landed, sort of, chute failed and it fell over, on Venus.  The Russians never sent a spacecraft to Mercury, that I can find a reference to. The US Mariner 10 did a flyby in 1974 but as far as I can tell Messenger will be the first to land, or crash, on Mercury.

John AG9D 

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 30, 2015, at 12:17 PM, ollie at ollietech.com wrote:

> Russians "soft" landed first in 1970 with Venera 7.
> 
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera
> 
> --------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] On-line Coverage of Messenger Crash into Mercury Today
> From: "John Geiger" <af5cc at fidmail.com>
> Date: 4/30/15 11:10 am
> To: "JoAnne Maenpaa" <k9jkm at comcast.net>
> Cc: "AMSAT BB" <AMSAT-BB at amsat.org>
> 
> Cool, won't this be the first spacecraft to "land" on Mercury?
> 
> 73 John AF5CC
> 
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:07 PM, JoAnne Maenpaa <k9jkm at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> The MESSENGER spacecraft is expected to end its mission today with a
>> planned
>> crash into planet Mercury. Read more on-line at:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://earthsky.org/space/six-cool-things-about-messengers-april-30-mercury-
>> crash
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Slooh will cover the event with a live show that begin at 3 p.m. EDT (19:00
>> UTC) on Thursday, April 30. Watch on-line at: http://main.slooh.com/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> 73 de JoAnne K9JKM
>> 
>> k9jkm at amsat.org
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available
>> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions
>> expressed
>> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of
>> AMSAT-NA.
>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!
>> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
> _______________________________________________
> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available
> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed
> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA.
> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!
> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
> _______________________________________________
> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available
> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed
> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA.
> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!
> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb