MESSENGER on its way

MESSENGER on its way. Yuppee. Its been great fun to see the images broadcast by CASSINI, NASA's mission to saturn. We hope to see such images from MESSENGER too. I have been reading about CASSINI and MESSENGER for a long time. The very fact that man has put a probe up there in the sky to look at saturn and the probe was sent on an unmanned mission for 7 long years to finally reach saturn this year, makes me feel proud of him. Though people would argue that space missions are not useful to the society, space research should be continued for the sense of adventure and scientific conquest.