Stealing a ride on a comet to the sun: spaceship's 10-year, 4bn mile odyssey European craft's audacious trip will give insight into our origins Tim Radford, science editorTuesday January 14, 2003The Guardian Some time in the next two weeks, European scientists hope to launch a spaceship the size of a delivery van and lob it across more than 4 billion miles of space to rendezvous 10 years from now with a dark lump of rock and ice the size of a city block. The spacecraft - called Rosetta after the stone that provided the key to the mystery of ancient...