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4.5Bil BC
 The planet Mercury formed about this time.
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1974 Mar 29
 Mariner 10 first flew past Mercury.
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1974 Sep 21
 US Mariner 10 made a 2nd fly-by of Mercury.
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1975 Mar 16
 Mariner 10 flew past Mercury a 3rd time.
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2004 Aug 3
 At Cape Canaveral, Fla., a Delta II rocket lifted the spacecraft Messenger on a 6 ½ year journey toward Mercury. The name stood for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging.
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2008 Jan 14
 The NASA space probe Messenger skimmed 124 miles above Mercury in the first of 3 passes before it settles into orbit in 2011.
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2011 Mar 17
 The US spacecraft Messenger went into orbit around Mercury after a 6-year, 4.9 billion mile journey. Messenger was expected to crash on April 30, 2015.
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2018 Oct 20
 European and Japanese space agencies said an Ariane 5 rocket successfully lifted a spacecraft carrying two probes into orbit for a joint mission to Mercury. The unmanned BepiColombo spacecraft successfully separated and was sent into orbit from French Guiana as planned to begin a seven-year journey to Mercury.
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2020 Oct 15
 The European-Japanese probe BepiColombo took a black-and-white snapshot of Venus from a distance of 17,000 km (10,560 miles), as it used Earth's neighbor to adjust its course on the way to Mercury, the solar system’s smallest and innermost planet.
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2021 Oct 1
 The BepiColombo mission, a joint European-Japanese spacecraft launched in 2018, made the first of six flybys of Mercury. The mission plans to deliver two probes into orbit in 2025.
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