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On this day in 2014 – November 12th –the Philae probe became the first spacecraft to land on a comet.

Philae was the lander that was part of the Rosetta mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.


Mona Evans
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