Charlie it is such a great story. It . Have we learned from guest announcing people understand how scientifically are. E valuable they theyre basically time capsules. Comment, youle a have a chance of seeing what the solar system was like billions of years ago, where our chemistry came from some of the history of where we are. There was the beauty of the images returned from rosetta, but we also got an example to show that the water in our bodies is more likely find in asteroids and comets. We are piecing together the origin of the story of life. Charlie it was a 12 year flight . Guest yes, the launch was in 2004. Charlie that is amazing to me. Guest isnt it amazing . The Rosetta Mission had two different touchdowns. There was the filet Lander Philae lander. Have a this comment will little bit of us. Charlie the landing must have been difficult. Guest they had some practice 2014, ande, back in it was not without dramatic moments. It needed to land on a flat surface so that it would not bounce around and leave the comment comet. They discovered later it bounced around a little bit. Knoware not able to really what happened to it, because the link back to us is now severed. Charlie what is most surprising about this . The Successful Mission and landing, or the data they have gained, or understanding something about the way it works . I think it was something that came to be after many years of dreaming, that Something Like this could happen. This goes back to the 1970s, it was not approved into the 1990s, and finally took off in 20 2004. We are now trying to land and mine asteroids for business purposes, and it gives us proof of how we can go through this. Back to thelinkage beginning of time is interesting and beautiful. Charlie rachel, what you love about the story . Guest i love a lot about the story. Following it i have been following it since beginning. It really captured the public imagination, and i think people have been way more engaged than they would of been otherwise. People got really attached to the lander and invested when it went missing. It has wrapped up nicely, and it is recently they located the lander in its final resting place. One thing i love about the end of the Rosetta Mission, it sounds like a waste of a billion dollar spacecraft to crash into the comet, but it is a perfect way to end the mission. Legcomet is on the outward of its mission, and it would have lost the sunlight. Instead of watching it slowly die and hoping that five years from now they can awaken back up again, they decided to spend it on a particularly entrusting act on the part of the comet. The data they got on the crash landing today will contribute to the body of knowledge we have about this comment and comments comets inand general. Charlie it is moving at 80,000 miles per hour, correctly correct me if im wrong. Help us understand more about co mets. Guest this was one of the main goals of the mission, to observe a comet. Many people know that they have a beautiful tale, and a solar wind will blow the tale out. The amazing thing about this mission is we were there for the beginning of the process, we were there as it approached the sun became more active, we saw jet coming off of it. That was one of the more exciting things for me, every day by day as it got closer to the sun, you would see more dramatic things going on. Charlie two things happened this week. We were also reminded by elon musk that he is going to try to go to mars and send spacecraft mars, and people to mars. And then this remarkable landing on a comet by rosetta. The is one more time that exploration of the skies is continuing. The constant exploration of what we do not know is continuing even though it might not have had as much publicity when we were sending up spacecraft to land on the moon, and all of its publicity without. With that. Yes . Guest the advent of social media has changed what publicity means. I was very pleased when we flew by pluto, we had a social media imprint of over 12 billion, which means there were billions of people who came back more than once to learn about the mission. Things were sort of frontpage news during the apollo mission, but we have a very broad reach now. That is an evolution i have enjoyed seeing. The European Space agency really took wonderful advantage of this with rosetta. Nasa was able to help with this, as well. Charlie nasa was involved in what way . Guest in the mission itself, nasa contributed three of the instrument and collaborated on a fourth. But as far social media, the thing that really got me was they had these little cartoon characters for both the orbiter and lander, and everything that happened, the cartoon characters would show was going on. I got sort of emotionally attached to them. As the lander went to sheet sleep, a got me emotionally involved. Learne are we going to new things about the formation of the universe in the relationship between . Guest weve learned quite a few things already. We know that there was some amino acid on the comet that maybe helped to seed life honor. On earth. Maybe they brought within a starter pack for life when they crash landed here. , is one of example the compounds. It is where the compounds found in a lot of proteins. You also have phosphorus being brought. That is involved in dna makeup. Elements that link is back to the beginnings of the universe. Data that theof rosetta spacecraft took that scientists will continue to analyze for years to come. Charlie the Associated Press wrote, and i will ask you about earth ever, should be threatened by an asteroid, the experience gained from the Rosetta Mission will prove valuable. Guest in general, when we talk about flying space rocks, we want to understand how they are, how they behave in their orbit. One thing that is interesting is that when we look at asteroids near earth and the upcoming asteroid elated missions that nasa has planned, theyre going to grab a piece of an asteroid, theyre going to try to redirect an asteroid. A big part of those missions is understanding the way those bodies interact with the sun as they come closer to it. For example, we know that when these bodies warm up, it changes their trajectory, but we dont know enough to factor that into models. That is why there is often a large margin of error when youre talking about how likely something is to hit earth. Its just understanding how these things are composed, how they came to be, how they act when they are close to the sun, and it will really help us determine whether or not something is a threat but also if we get good at having spacecraft that can successfully orbit or land on these bodies, and needs me to means we are more likely to interact with them in a way that would stop them. Charlie what is the most tantalizing question for you about spacex oration Space Exploration . Michelle . The reason we do Space Exploration really is to look for our own origins. We are trying to find our history out there, all the way back to the formation of the solar system. Comets are a big piece of that puzzle. We have a sample of what your molecules were like billions of years ago. I am looking for that story of why am i here talking to you, how did the universe make that happen . Rachel . Guest im really excited about our plan to launch toward europa , and also looking at moons in our solar system that have oceans on them that could be full of weird, microbial life. Its always exciting when we talk about other planets in other solar systems, but the idea that we might be able to find life so close to home or not find life even though conditions to support exist is so intriguing and i cannot wait until we are far enough along to answer those questions. Charlie and you . Guest i am a huge traveler, so for me it is the idea that perhaps in my lifetime i might be able to pay a couple of hundred thousand dollars to get into space. I want to go, i want to see the earth and moon. Charlie anybody who has seen it says you cannot imagine the experience of seeing the perspective of, there is earth. Guest seeing the earth from above would be spectacular. Charlie thank you well, it is a pleasure to have you on the program and to know each of you. Appetite. Y we will be right back, stay with us. Charlie Mark Phillips is here, he is the senior Foreign Correspondent for cbs news. His unique style of writing blends accuracy and attitude with a little humor. His catalog of work has earned him the respect of his peers and he is been recognized with multiple emmys. Everything from the syrian refugee crisis to the royal family. Here is a look at some of his many reports. Princess, not yet 10 hours old when she left the hospital with her parents. It may be a while before any prince charming arrives to wake her, but if she opened her eyes she would see a familiar sight. Hundreds of people looking at her. Are you are saying you would rather people were poor and out of the eu . Itit is not happening here happening. Queen is there to be, not to do. Mark has been based in the London Bureau for more than two decades. I am pleased to have him here. Welcome. Guest thank you very much. Charlie can you think of anything you would rather do . Guest other than go sailing . [laughter] charlie anything comparable . Guest no, i cannot think of a career i would rather have than the one i have had. It is not all gallivanting around to the worlds garden spots, i will say that. [laughter] guest some can be like hell, some of them are hell. You are up until 1 00 in the morning, that kind of thing. But it has been pretty satisfying. Charlie do you love storytelling . ,uest it is finding out stuff which i guess amounts to the same thing. Figuring out how to get across what it is the you are that,sing, and not just even more important, what you are witnessing means. Not just there but to people in the audience. Transcript. Ead a that. I must do journalism kenexa vents to the roles of people, that kind of thing. It is not just the shock of the new, it is the meaning of the new. Guest i think we all recognize in television that it is not the best medium for explaining stuff. It is too easy to rely on the emotional. It is a close up medium. Decrying, the tear stained babys face. It is the journalism of victimhood. It is a thing you see, and it is a lot easier to put the picture on the air and let it tell its story than to get into the reasons why that child is in that situation. Say to me, why so many fires and why so many floods . Guest it is not just in tv, there is a tendency through journalism generally. It is also a responsibility if youre there. There is a responsibility to tell people not just what is going on but why. Charlie the London Bureau is legendary within the halls of cbs. Row. Oes back to edward r mur there is something there. Guest it is a special place within the company and within the business. It was effectively the first Foreign Bureau established in the war years, which was then radio. Livenk the more places you , the more you would like to live in a place with all of the good things in it. There is no perfect place. London has become home. Charlie it depends on how hot the story is at that place. If you were there during the tothat it went from gorbachev. Guest i had three general secretaries. Charlie and and drop off andropov. All of that and the beginnings of glasnost. It was a whirlwind when i was there. It was also a period when you can see the bits falling off of the system. Upeet markets were being set , there was a desperate attempt to keep the system together, and gorbachev realizing, he said later he realized it was a losing cause. It was a good time to be there. At cbs news, one of the meaningful moments for me because i was so new, i was hadg night watch, and i to announce journey goes a depth to washington. There was, the kremlin. I thought, my god. I have a longstanding interest in russia, i have interviewed a lot of russians. Putin . You think of guest i think he fits a familiar pattern. The russians like their leaders strong, and strong leaders like to stay leaders, so they use the levers of power. , thellows in that mold great democratic experiment in 1989 years. E post it is a tough place to be in opposition politician or journalist these days. Charlie like turkey. Guest in some ways like turkey. Journalistically, i prefer the old moscow. I have been back a few times even since living there, and when i walk down the streets, the oldest buildings, they would have the names carved into stone and they are covered with signs for panasonic and what have you. But you know they are still there. It is pretty amusing sometimes. Charlie what was the most interesting war you covered . Guest it is hard to talk about having a favorite the most interesting war . I think i have done about 20 different conflicts over the years. Charlie you said Something Interesting about that, you said how do you know when you have decided this is the last one . I talked to richard engel, he said it was less attractive to him. Guest that happens. Of what i callan bullets journalism, meaning the classic joke that the journalist filed while bullets were whizzing past them. I dont think you have to be seen to be jumping into holes and covered in dust to explain these things. There probably is one role of of the dice too many. You can smell when it is close. Charlie can you really . Guest i think you can. I have had two or three times when i thought, i really should not be here, this could be it. Charlie when you feel that, what is your instinct . Guest initially, duck and be more careful. I think mostly, how to i get out of this particular one and i will be more careful next time. Culture. Covering there is a lot of culture in london, a lot of theater, a lot of royal family. A lot of opera. City, it hasrful its history, that would be appealing to me to be the midst of all that. Guest it is a great place to live. Charlie but as a journalist, as well. Guest yes. There are two places of all the places i have lived, to places in europe that are a story among themselves, and britain is one because of all the things you mentioned. Charlie britain, not just london. Yes, but people would make the case that london is not britain the way that new york is not america. [laughter] charlie the notion that it ends of the hudson. Guest the other one is italy. There is a residual interest in the audience here, maybe because of the migration. Amusing, c the brits could do a lot of softer cultural pieces about the british, and you can kind of do it about the italians. Nobody somehow finds the french or germans amusing. But yes, london is a fabulous place to live. There is a lot going on. Charlie if the powers of yet cbs had said, tell me what kind of stories you would most like to do, what would you told him . Guest the thing i am most trying to push now is the climate story. I think the climate story is the big story around now, and has implications that are economic, social, i think a lot of the charlie you have a climate diary. Guest yes, i have a series that runs when i have time to get out it. I think it is driving a lot of other news these days, a lot of the refugee questions, particularly out of africa. It is undeniable that something is going on, and we have to adjust and somehow cope with what is coming and we ought to be doing more about it. Charlie whatever limitations there are in terms of climate, for example, is it your time or airtime that is the greater restriction . Guest mostly my time. I have to say that cbs has been pretty good, they have been interested in the story and well put it on. It is mostly about freeing up my time. News stories just kind of happene. They take place within a certain restricted time. Time period and place, but the climate stories you have to go get. There are fewer of them than your average news story. It is the biggest story and the biggest challenge. It has been argued that it is bigger thanit has been argued ts bigger than terrorism. It has the power to threaten our entire situate civilization. Guest no question about it. Climate is a Freight Train chugging down the tracks. Charlie there is a lot of coverage, but you dont since that, you notice there and a big story, but you dont see people having the same fear. It is like you cannot see it. Yep to places were the melting are taken place taking place. Guest you are starting to see it. If you look at the numbers, you are stirring to see it. If you look at the climate refugee problem, it is already happening. Charlie explain that. Piece thatst did a has not gone on area it. The unow estimates now estimates an area the size called salt affected agricultural land, because of approaching sea levels and Climate Change, there are areas were people stop growing stuff, particularly in africa but other places, as well. That is spurring economic decline and pushing refugees. This past summer weve seen more african refugees and we have seen syrian and middle eastern refugees. That is one of the things they are running from. The problem is that in television terms, it is harder to do those stories. Bangare not bang stories. They are longerterm and you have to convince people they are important. It is hard work. Charlie what is your attitude about the royal family . You have an attitude about the royal family. Guest i like them. And the connection between them and their public . Guest i dont think you can regularly do will stories without bringing to the whole question a sense of the absurd. And theyian landed were told that a modern country still had charlie an 80yearold woman with white hair. Has done a good job as a clean queen. Guest an excellent job. You have to, i think without being irreverent and without being insulting, you have to help people along through that story by being perhaps whimsical. Charlie whimsical is probably the right word for it. Certainly not the word for aleppo. Guest certainly not. Charlie someone with your experience, do you see a tragedy like that and think that you want to be there . Honest,o be perfectly not that we have not been, the answer is yes and no. Problem a particular for us because it is the first major conflict that we really have not been able to get at just because it is too dangerous to get at. Damascus, a couple of weeks ago, they brought people to aleppo, but on the government side, it is too dangerous to go into syria the way we were earlier in the war from turkey, linking up with rebel groups that you can hopefully trust. It is too dangerous to do that now. That is the frustration of covering the syrian story. We all know what is going on, but past a certain point i think the audience becomes almost in ured to aleppo. To coin a famous phrase, what is aleppo . It is been going on so long, i think the attitude toward it is colored by the frustration of of inciden