[FTC]: Rocket Science
 

Unrlelated... but not (in the big picture).

One or our FTC mentors (Max) really is a retired rocket scientist. He was involved with 9 different satelite missions.

His last (before retiring) was the "Messenger" who's mission was/is to take up orbit around Mercury and do various mapping.

The Satelite was launched back in 2004, but just this week it will do it's final orbit insertion. He's pretty excited :)

Imagine designing anything that you send out and have to wait 7 years for it to do it's job.

If you want to see some more details (and a cool animation) go here:

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/mer_orbit.html

Stay tuned for pictures.

Phil.