We’re about to crash a £1billion spacecraft head-first into a comet

The £1billion Rosetta mission is about to come to a dramatic end, when the spacecraft is flown head-first into a comet.
Rosetta reached 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenk on August 6, 2014, after a decade-long journey through the solar system.
But all good things must come to an end.
South West Trains are about to open a fresh level of hell at Waterloo Station Final commands are being uploaded into the orbiter today to line the probe up for its deliberate crash into the rough surface of the comet it has orbited for over two years.
Rosetta will carry out the ‘collision manoeuvre’ at 9.50pm GMT at an... read more