Additionally, ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are collaborating on the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. In January 2025, BepiColombo will make its sixth flyby of Mercury ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8, 2025, the spacecraft made ...

Chris Kraft was sole flight director for the Mercury missions and the lead flight director on several of the Gemini flights. He describes the position this way: "There's only one flight director.

NASA had not yet put a man in orbit around the Earth. That would happen during the successive one-man missions of Project Mercury. But the Apollo project required a number of more advanced ...

Closest approach will take the spacecraft just 160 miles above the surface of Mercury. Mission controllers will release images of the event on Jan. 9. Two moon landers on one rocket: Jan. 15 Two ...

That’s because these ion drives are real. The craft is actually two spacecraft in one with two different Mercury missions. The Mercury planetary orbiter will study the surface while the ...

A parade of seven planets will appear in the night sky tonight, creating a striking display that won't be seen again until 2040. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn will form ...