Fișier:Delta 7925H MESSENGER ignition.jpg

English: An Delta II 7925H launches, from Cape Canaveral, the MESSENGER Spaceprobe to the Planet Mercury on August 3, 2004 at 6:15:56 UTC

Deutsch: Eine Delta II 7925H Rakete startete am 3. August 2004 um 6:15:56 Uhr UTC mit der Raumsonde MESSENGER Richtung Merkur.

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. – The MESSENGER spacecraft atop a Boeing Delta II rocket lifts off on time at 2:15:56 a.m. EDT, from Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) is on a seven-year, 4.9-billion-mile journey to the planet Mercury. The spacecraft will fly by Earth, Venus and Mercury several times, as well as circling the sun 15 times, to burn off energy before making its final approach to the inner planet on March 18, 2011. MESSENGER was built for NASA by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md.

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