Published in The Patriot Ledger August 23, 2014
In the 1950s and 1960s, it was the Soviets who had most of the space firsts, including the first satellite, first man in space, and first rocket to the moon. Starting with the Apollo moon landing in 1969, it has been NASA that has had the most space firsts. But earlier this month, the European Space Agency (ESA) scored a major space first when its Rosetta spacecraft rendezvoused with a comet. (more…)