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Craft successfully becomes first Mercury orbiter
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Submitted: Sat Mar 19 2011
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After a six-and-a-half-year voyage from Earth, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft performed a crucial 15-minute rocket firing Thursday evening to brake into orbit around hellish Mercury, becoming the first probe to take up residence around the solar system's innermost world. The burn, which began at 8:54 and concluded at 9:09 p.m. EDT, went according t...