Mercury, twice in a lifetime
A story on the only Mariner 10 team member working with
the MESSENGER team in exploring Mercury.
To quote:
Bob Strom had begun to lose hope.
A veteran of NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s, he was bursting with questions that the Mariner flybys had raised about the little planet but couldn't answer.
"I've been hoping for another Mercury mission for 30 years, practically," said Strom, an expert on impact craters. But for decades, NASA seemed unable to make it happen.
"I really thought ... I'd never live to see Mercury again," he said.
But he did.
The rest of the story here:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.strom18jan18,0,7476919.story?coll=bal_tab01_layout