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Urgent: NASA launches MESSENGER spacecraft to explore Mercury
www.chinaview.cn 2004-08-03 14:26:38

    WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- NASA launched its MESSENGER spacecraft early Tuesday, for the first mission of this kind in 30years to explore Mercury, the least-explored and the closest planet to the Sun.

    MESSENGER was launched as planned aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket at 2:16 a.m. EDT (0616 GMT) Tuesday from Cape Canaveral AirForce Station in Florida. Enditem

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