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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, front right, along with Ed Weiler, NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, and NASA Chief Scientist Waleed Abdalati, center, watch status updates on the MESSENGER spacecraft orbit insertion, Thursday, March 17, 2011, at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. MESSENGER, on a six-year mission to become the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury is carrying seven science instruments and is fortified against the blistering environs near the sun. The orbit insertion will place the spacecraft into a 12-hour orbit about Mercury with a 200 kilometer (124 mile) minimum altitude. MESSENGER will be 46.14 million kilometers (28.67 million miles) from the sun and 155.06 million kilometers (96.35 million miles) from Earth. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)

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