Continuation of MISSION: INNUMERABLE MESSENGER: Launching in July this year, Messenger is NASA's first mission to planet Mercury since 1975. It goes into orbit after another protracted cosmic billiards game in 2011. NEW HORIZONS: Pluto is the only planet yet to be visited. Anearlier version of New Horizons was cancelled for budgetary reasons, but after furious lobbying, NASA will now fly ano-frills version in 2006. It will take nearly ten years to get there. Other misions almost certain to go ahead include Mars orbitors and landers, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission to study the atmosphere of Venus in 2005, and a NASA flight to the large asteroids Ceres and Vesta in 2006. The year 2008 will probably see return to the moons of Jupiter, particularly Europa, thought to be home to a vast ocean of water beneath its icy surface and, just maybe, home to some Europans as well. THIS IS MY LAST POSTING AS I AM TOO BUSY IN MY PROFESSIONAL LIFE. I WISH YOU WELL AS I BID GOOD BYE.