How we landed on a comet 300 million miles away

The Rosetta mission launched by the European Space Agency landed successfully on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on November 12. The historic touchdown by the Philae lander was decades in the making.

Read more about it here: http://www.vox.com/2014/11/12/7203081/philae-comet-rosetta

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