Giuseppe Colombo30 September 1999
ESA names its planned Mercury mission BepiColombo in honour of Giuseppe Colombo's pioneering work on Mercury and planetary flyby trajectories.
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ESA names its planned Mercury mission BepiColombo in honour of Giuseppe Colombo's pioneering work on Mercury and planetary flyby trajectories.
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