Big day for Europe: #CometLanding 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. 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. Controllers got confirmation that the lander successfully touched down on the surface of the comet. Officials are now trying to determine whether they need to re-fire the probes harpoons to be sure it stays in place on the comet. ESA officials confirmed that the spacecraft made its soft landing on the comet at a little bit after 11 a.m. EST (1600 GMT) today Philae landing in Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Highlights from the Rosetta mission media briefing at ESAs Space Operations Centre (ESOC), 20:00 CET on 11 November, as the teams prepare for Philae landing and science from the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Scientist theory that life in earth start after comets crashing in earth, bringing water, mineral to earth . Land in Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko will bring many answers . Bring a little more knowledge. (learning a little bit more of God work?;) And not. It was not accomplish by US or Russia (neither Bashar Al Assad) But by The European Space Agency (ESA) an intergovernmental organization dedicated to the exploration of space, with 20 member states. ESAs space flight programme includes human spaceflight, mainly through the participation in the International Space Station programme, the launch and operations of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon, Earth observation, science, telecommunication as well as maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana, and designing launch vehicles. After World War II, many European scientists left Western and Eastern Europe in order to work in the United States and Russia. USA and Russia had all to win from war in Europe and their massive recruitment of European scientist (many were NAZIS scientist in a very American , Russia hypocrisy hate nazis but need nazis e space race between the US and the Soviet Union . In 1958, only months after the Sputnik shock, Edoardo Amaldi and Pierre Auger, two prominent members of the Western European scientific community at that time, met to discuss the foundation of a common Western European space agency. The meeting was attended by scientific representatives from eight countries. The European Space Agency (ESA) was founded with the ESA Convention in 1975,by 10 founding member states: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. ESA headquartered is in Paris, France, science missions are based at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands, Earth Observation missions at ESRIN in Frascati, Italy, ESA Mission Control (ESOC) is in Darmstadt, Germany, the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) that trains astronauts for future missions is situated in Cologne, Germany, and the European Space Astronomy Centre is located in Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain. ESA today is an intergovernmental organisation of 20 member states : Austria Belgium Czech Republic Denmark Finland France0 Germany, Greece Ireland Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom and Associate Member Canada Bad news to USA, to Russia . Fantastic cooperation of European nations. Congratulations to all involved! space/27740-rosetta-comet-landing-success.html?adbid=10152448317356466&adbpl=fb&adbpr=17610706465&cmpid=514630_20141112_35464647#ooid=tmdzRvcTqlB1v5t2rvVywlRC60r_vz1k
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 21:40:15 +0000
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