By Robin Alcantara |Staff Writer| The European Space Agency (ESA) accomplished a historical landing of a probe on a comet moving at 83,885 miles per hour on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. “This is the first time humans have landed something on a comet,” stated Dr. Laura Woodney in an e-mail, CSUSB physics and chemistry of comets associate professor. “This is an amazing feat of engineering.” The Rosetta-Philae mission was launched on March 2, 2004 from a European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Rosetta chased Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for 10 years before releasing the probe, Philae, for a seven hour drop to the surface of the comet. Philae is designed to drill the surface of … [Read more...] about Space agency lands probe on comet