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Public Category - Open to Public => GENERAL TECHNOLOGY NEWS => Topic started by: Dingo on November 13, 2014, 06:09:06 AM

Title: Rosetta mission: Philae makes historic landing on comet
Post by: Dingo on November 13, 2014, 06:09:06 AM
Full story HERE (http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/rosetta-mission-philae-makes-historic-landing-on-comet/ar-AA7M4J0)
Title: Re: Rosetta mission: Philae makes historic landing on comet
Post by: LawryB on November 13, 2014, 10:23:11 AM

Simply HUGE effort from ESA.
Title: Re: Rosetta mission: Philae makes historic landing on comet
Post by: Mike Mitchell on November 13, 2014, 11:16:39 AM
Great work on ESA's part.  :dance2: Pity the landing spikes didn't activate. Hope they can rectify that.
Title: Re: Rosetta mission: Philae makes historic landing on comet
Post by: JugNut on November 13, 2014, 02:16:35 PM
Now thats science you can sink your teeth into. Great stuff indeed.  :thumbsup: 

The side story about one of the lander team members isn't bad either. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2831371/Meet-Dr-Matt-Taylor-British-scientist-taking-Twitter-storm-confident-Rosetta-success-s-landing-TATTOOED-leg.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2831371/Meet-Dr-Matt-Taylor-British-scientist-taking-Twitter-storm-confident-Rosetta-success-s-landing-TATTOOED-leg.html) 

The moxy on the guy.    Quote "He is so confident of the mission's success he got inked in January"  He had absolutely no doubt at all the mission would be a success. Awesome!!
Title: Re: Rosetta mission: Philae makes historic landing on comet
Post by: Sean on November 13, 2014, 05:25:40 PM
Pretty amazing  :thumbsup: