Monday, December 01, 2014

"A giant leap for mankind" make sense now

Philae at 67P comet
When Neil Armstrong in July 21, 1969 spoke those famous words "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind" make sense now when we see the Man making a galactic history when the Rosetta Mission successful landed its Philae probe on a speeding comet - at least for those who wasn't born at that time (like me).

When we see numbers of this project, An Ariane 5G+ rocket carrying the Rosetta spacecraft and Philae lander launched in 2004 and travelled 3.907 days until the day November 12, 2014, when the Philae achieved the first-ever controlled touchdown on a comet nucleus, it is really something that we haven't seen since the epic event of Armstrong on the moon.

Due to the side of the comet where Philae landed, the dark side and no sun to recharge the batteries, Philae rests in peace three days after its landing until one day the batteries get recharged again touched by the sun and then new experiments starts all over again.
Let's be patience and wait for this magical moment to happen again.