Dead Red

Well played ESA. You may not have had 100% success, but we're still one more step ahead and valuable lessons can be learn for the next ride.

And in the meantime, TGO can continue sciencing as it hangs above the red planet. Alone.

Snif :-(

Rosie and Phil 4eva

Finally, they are together.

The two little robots sent into deep space by the European Space agency will now drift on the back of the Rosetta comet for millennia. Maybe one day they will be considered ancient relics and gathered up by our descendants, as they move to another star.

Until then.

Congratulations and high fives to everybody involved.

The highest Peake

Today Tim Peake, left planet earth on the Soyuz rocket and became the first British astronaut for the European Space Administration.

I couldn't help but feel for his family who watched the launch, especially with a number of recent disasters in space travel as of late. Still, it all went smoothly and the Soyuz successfully docked with the ISS.

Congratulations to Tim and all the other members of the Principa Mission who made it happen.

GoooOOO Science!