Preparing for disaster, celebrating success

Eva Emerson
Sandy Schaffer
It’s not every day that you hear science stories on sports radio. But the Rosetta mission, which involved the impressive feat of landing a robot on a swiftly moving comet, provided an exception. Steve Czaban of ESPN Radio took a break from his usual obsessive football and basketball chatter, if only briefly, to voice his admiration for Rosetta and its slo-mo, balletic conveyance of the Philae lander onto 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.