[Bloody Sam Roberts]

So, what exactly went right with this mission?

For starters, a man made probe traveled approximately 4 billion miles and landed on a comet.

Roughly the equivalent of hitting a speck of dust with a BB gun from a distance of 10 miles.

[cripplecreek]

We’ve got some pretty spectacular things going on in space too.

We’ll be getting our first look at Pluto in July. The Dawn probe visited Vesta for several months and is now approaching Ceres. The Juno craft is on its way to Jupiter.

[mikrofon]

Roughly the equivalent of hitting a speck of dust with a BB gun from a distance of 10 miles

... while passing by a series of magnets with a varying "wind" along the way.