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FYI.  THIS IS TONIGHT….

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From: NASA News [mailto:hqnews@mediaservices.nasa.gov]
Sent: Thu 3/17/2011 4:44 PM
To: NASA News
Subject: NASA TV To Cover MESSENGER Spacecraft Entering Mercury’s Orbit

March 17, 2011

Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov

Paulette Campbell
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md.
240-228-6792
paulette.campbell@jhuapl.edu

MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-061
WASHINGTON — NASA Television and the agency’s website will carry live
coverage from 8 to 10 p.m. EDT Thursday as the first spacecraft
enters Mercury’s orbit. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory, which operates the MESSENGER spacecraft, is conducting
the webcast from its mission control building in Laurel, Md.

NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging,
or MESSENGER, is scheduled to enter the planet’s orbit at
approximately 9 p.m. after conducting more than a dozen laps through
the inner solar system for the past 6.6 years.

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about the mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/messenger

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