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ESA Gives Green Light To Rosetta

Posted by timothy on from the what-languages-will-it-support dept.

JoeRobe writes "An ESA review board has given the green light for launch of the Rosetta Spacecraft in January 2003. The Rosetta Mission is one of the ESA's boldest missions to date. Over the next eight years, the spacecraft will conduct two asteroid (Otawara and Siwa) flybys and finish off by dropping a lander onto the surface of comet Wirtanen."

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  1. About the Lander part by BenV666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will the pilot of the lander be chosen by the Lunar Lander game? I sure hope this lander has better controls... ;)