Sandy SchafferIt’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.
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