While every news agency concentrates on Japan and Libya, America is making history
America making history at a time when so much else is going on that media’s efforts to cover it falls on deaf ears and bloodshot eyes. This day is important because it will now provide our children with a point of reference and a better look at parts of the universe once thought to be completely off limits to the capabilities of man. An Associated Press article titled NASA spacecraft now circling Mercury — a first tells us that “ NASA's spacecraft called Messenger successfully veered into a pinpoint orbit Thursday night after a 6 1/2-year trip and 4.9 billion miles and tricky maneuvering to fend off the gravitational pull of the sun.” The best part of this entire article is expressed by Messenger’s chief engineer, Eric Finnegan when he said “"It was right on the money." Messenger is in orbit that brings it as close as 120 miles above the planet's surface. "This is as close you can possibly get to being perfect." "Everybody was whooping and holle...