“It’s not only about science. It’s not only about the exploration,” a scientist with the European Space Agency said this morning. “It’s about the inspiration.”
Today’s attempt to land a space probe on a comet tests whether space exploration is still capable to inspiring people on terra firma.
Live coverage of the attempt is below the fold.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins