A NASA Discovery mission to conduct the first orbital study of the innermost planet

Images from the MESSENGER Model in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

Pictured here, from left to right, are: Ted Hartka, APL's Technical Services Department; MESSENGER Principal Investigator Sean Solomon, Carnegie Institution of Washington; MESSENGER Mission Operations Manager Andy Calloway, APL; MESSENGER Project Scientist Ralph McNutt, APL; and MESSENGER Mission Systems Engineer Eric Finnegan, APL. Photo Credit: Mark Avino, National Air and Space Museum.

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