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Spacecraft Lands on Speeding Comet

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A historic first.

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For the first time ever, a spacecraft has landed on a comet. The European Space Agency’s Philae, the size of a washing machine, decended from the mother ship Rosetta to Comet 67P on Wednesday.

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