Why the Rosetta mission is this generation's moon landing

Friday, November 21, 2014 - 10:01 in Astronomy & Space

The thing everyone seems to talk about with the moon landings is the idea of the whole world stopping to watch. It was a mission that overcame nationalism, it wasn't "America" putting a man on the moon, it was "Us" – humankind. With Rosetta, the whole world not only watched but they were part of a real-time conversation with mission control.

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