This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The target is two miles wide and 300 million miles away. But today, the European Space agency landed a spacecraft on a comet, a first in human history. The lander named philae shot these pictures on approach to the comet which is called 67 p, a name as gray as the bolders and ridges that litter its service. Philae bounced once when an anchoring system failed to catch. When it settled, it began sending signals but it has not sent pictures from the surface yet. Charlie dagata is at Mission Control in germany. Reporter a decadelong dream of landing on a streaking comet came true today. applause matt taylor is with the European Space agency. We tried to land on a bleed comet thats 500 million kilometers away and we just dropped something the size of a fridge, and its going down. Its mental, its crazy that were doing this. Reporter the philae separateseparated from its unmad mothership the rosetta earlier today. The comet
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The target is two miles wide and 300 million miles away. But today the European Space agency landed a spacecraft on a comet, a first in human history. The lander named philae shot these pictures on approach to the comet which is called 67 p, a name as gray as the bolders and ridges that litter its service. Philae bounced once when an anchoring system failed to catch. When it settled it began sending signals but it has not sent pictures from the surface yet. Charlie dagata is at Mission Control in germany. Reporter a decadelong dream of landing on a streaking comet came true today. applause matt taylor is with the European Space agency. We tried to land on a bleed comet thats 500 million kilometers away and we just dropped something the size of a fridge and its going down. Its mental, its crazy that were doing this. Reporter the philae separatedseparated from its unmanned mothership the rose
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. The target is two miles wide and 300 million miles away. But today, the European Space agency landed a spacecraft on a comet, a first in human history. The lander named philae shot these pictures on approach to the comet, which is called 67 p, a name as gray as the boulders and ridges that litter its surfacee. Philae bounced once when an anchoring system failed to catch. When it settled, it began sending signals, but it has not sent pictures from the surface yet. Charlie dagata is at Mission Control in germany. Reporter a decadelong dream of landing on a streaking comet came true today. applause matt taylor is with the European Space agency. We tried to land on a bloody comet thats 500 million kilometers away, and we just dropped something the size of a fridge, and its going down. Its mental, its crazy that were doing this. Reporter the philae separated from its unmanned mothership, the ro