Europe set to make space history with comet landing
- 9 years ago
One of the biggest gambles in space history comes to a climax on Wednesday when Europe attempts to make the first-ever landing on a comet. Speeding towards the Sun at 65,000 kilometres (40,600 miles) per hour, a lab called Philae will detach from its mothership Rosetta and attempt to land on a minuscule site on the treacherous surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, an object darker than coal.