Watch: Rosetta Spacecraft Meets Comet

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Here's a chance to witness a world first: the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Rosetta spacecraft is scheduled to meet the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet today at 4AM ET

Launched in March 2004, Rosetta completed several fly-bys of Earth and Mars and imaged two asteroids before entering hibernation in June 2011. It was awaken from its slumber on Jan. 20, 2014, to finally fulfill its destiny: a rendezvous with a comet, the first human-made spacecraft to do so

Nearly there! MT @Philae2014: #AreWeThereYet ? I've added some NavCam pics of #67 to our scrapbookhttp://ift.tt/V0Pnyi

— ESA Rosetta Mission (@ESA_Rosetta) August 6, 2014 Read more...

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