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MESSENGER is now on autopilot, faithfully executing a detailed set of instructions required to achieve its historic rendezvous with Mercury tomorrow night.

At 8 a.m. Tuesday, all attitude re-orientations planned to control the probe’s momentum accumulation and adjust its trajectory were successfully completed. MESSENGER turned to point its high-gain antenna back to Earth for the final stretch of continuous data monitoring until just before the start of Mercury orbit insertion.

MyMoon webcast with Dr. Phil Plait
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
8pm Eastern

(Bad) Astronomer Dr. Phil Plait will discuss how he got involved with debunking Moon hoax conspiracists. The rest of the conversation is up to you! You can begin by submitting your questions for Phil at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/mymoon/?p=p_plait.cfm?.

Attend the webcast by clicking here: http://connect.arc.nasa.gov/mymoon