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European Spacecraft Lands on Comet in Historic Space Feat by Miriam Kramer, Space Staff Writer | November 12, 2014 11:13am ET Submit Reddit For the first time in history, a spacecraft from Earth has landed on the face of a comet speeding through deep space. The European Space Agencys Philae lander on the Rosetta spacecraft made its nail-biting, history-making touchdown on the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko today (Nov. 12). Mission controllers are still trying to determine whether Philaes harpoons fired to anchor it to the surface of the comet. The landing ended what some scientists had dubbed seven hours of terror - the time it took for Philae to descend from Rosetta as the spacecraft and comet flew through space about 317 million miles (510 million kilometers) from Earth.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:19:51 +0000

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