Mercury orbiter retired after successful mission

OtherMichael April 30, 2015, 2:45pm 5

You’re ashamed of your planet?

It meant they didn’t have to pack enough fuel to send it into an extra-solar orbit for which it wasn’t designed, anyway.

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