Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Preparing Probe 'To Get Closer To Sun Than Ever Before'There's no room for mistakes when you send a spacecraft on the closest journey to the sun ever attempted.
Spacecraft To Give Earth First Close-Up Look Of PlutoClosing in on the really far out. If everything goes right, a spacecraft built and controlled in Maryland will come out of hibernation Saturday night.
Hopkins Scientists Plan To Study Mercury Until Messenger Spacecraft CrashesRunning out of gas and time. After orbiting the planet Mercury for the past three years, the Messenger Spacecraft--built here in Maryland--is headed for a crash landing.