Rosetta’s Philae probe has made the first-ever landing on a comet when it touches down on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on Wednesday, November 12th. “Philae lander” headed for its assigned landing site named “Agilkia” on the surface of the comet, after a trip into space lasted 10 years, started in 2004.
Culminated with success despite all the difficulties, the landing process was achieved with the participation of Dr. Essam Heggy, an Egyptian space scientist in NASA agency for space research in the United States and member of the Board of Directors of the Planetarium Science Center, and three Egyptian scientists: illusion, Dr. Essam Maarouf, specialist in science of radio waves and transmission at the University of "San Jose" in United States, and Dr. Rami ELmaari, and Dr. Ahmed El-Shafei.
On Facebook, Heggy said: “Philae lander successfully landed on the surface of the comet for the first time, within the space mission Rosetta to be a historic moment for humanity as described by the President of the European Space Research Center. The spacecraft will study the basic elements that have contributed to the evolution and development of life on Earth”
He continued: “With all the joy that my Egyptian colleagues and I feel, we dedicate it all the Egyptian youth, giving them hope and faith that the youth of Egypt are capable of contributing to the largest and most complex scientific challenges”.
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http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/live/2014/nov/13/rosetta-mission-philae-lander-live-coverage-comet-esa