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The Netherlands are writing History.

For the first time in history, a space vehicle has landed on a comet.
This happened today at 16:05 GMT

The project is under Dutch supervision by Fred Jansen.
Landinggear, solarpanels, explorer testing was all done
in the Netherlands.
It took the carrier 10 years, 5 months and 4 days to reach the comet.
The comet has almost no gravity so there was a risc for the explorer
to bounce back after the landing since a pushing thruster failed
to work as also 3 harpoons don't seem to work.
It takes about half an hour for a radio signal to reach the Earth.

But today the explorer has left the carrier and landed successfully
on the comet. The comet has a size of about 3 x 5 kilometer
and is now at a distance of about 500 million kilometers from Earth.

There are many sources where you can find more info
here is one of them:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/11/for-the-first-time-humanity-is-landing-on-a-comet/382664/

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