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This publicly provided image by the European Space Agency ESA shows an artist’s impression of the Rosetta orbiter deploying the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The image is not to scale; the Rosetta spacecraft measures 32 m across including the solar arrays, while the comet nucleus is thought to be about 4 km wide. The European Space Agency has set a tentative date for the first landing of a spacecraft on a comet. ESA says Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013 its Rosetta probe will wake up from hibernation Jan. 20 before chasing down comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. If all goes according to plan, Rosetta will launch a lander onto the surface of the comet on Nov. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/ESA, C.Carreau)
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NASA "We need each other more than ever before," says NASA's Jim Green of the imperiled partnership with the European Space Agency.
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The crew of space shuttle Endeavour, from left, Canadian born U.S. astronaut Greg Chamitoff, mission specialist Drew Feustel, European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori, of Italy,, mission specialist Mike Fincke, British born U.S. astronaut, pilot Greg Johnson and commander Mark Kelly, leave th(...)
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The crew of space shuttle Endeavour, clockwise from left, British born U.S. astronaut, pilot Greg Johnson, European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori, of Italy, Canadian born U.S. astronaut Greg Chamitoff, mission specialist Drew Feustel, mission specialist Mike Fincke and commander Mark Kelly,(...)
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The astronauts of space shuttle Endeavour — (from left) Navy Capt. Mark Kelly, the mission commander; Gregory Chamitoff; Drew Feustel; Roberto Vittori, an Italian with the European Space Agency; Air Force Col. Mike Fincke; and retired Air Force Col. Greg Johnson, the pilot — gather for a photo after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Thursday, May 12, 2011. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
