[Friday, May 6, 2005] MESSENGER made deep space communications history by taking with it electronically-steered phased array antennas that will allow scientists to send back twice as much data about the planet than originally envisioned.

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[Tuesday, May 31, 2005] NASA's Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft - less than three months from an Earth flyby that will slingshot it toward the inner solar system - successfully tested its main camera by snapping distant approach shots of Earth and the Moon.

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