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Ride down a hill. 20 people on board suffered minor injuries. park officials are looking into what may have caused the incident. after hibernating for seven months, a spacecraft that landed on a speeding comet has awakened and phoned home. the lander called philae resumed communications with earth for more than a minute sending about 300 packages of data. it had lost contact last fall when its batteries died. the european space agency said the lander appeared to be still in pretty good shape. next two flying objects a lot closer to home, drones. and for a lot of people, they are way too cl...

>> the european space agency is landing a tiny spacecraft on a comet 300 million miles from earth. the comet is moving at a pretty good clip. here now abc's josh haskell. >> everything is exciting about rosetta. >> reporter: a comet is moving through space. on its tail, the rosetta probe belonging to the european space agency. it's been on a ten-year mission to make contact with a comet in just hours. >> i remember reading about it when it launched, and the arrival date was so far in the future. now it's so exciting that we're actually getting there. >> reporter: if successful, this would be o...

The comet. then another hour for those results to come back to earth. around 11:00 a.m. we should know if the probe hit its target. >> so it won't go quack. >> oh, reena. i know. you couldn't help yourself. josh haskell, thank you so much. coming up -- clothing controversy. the new calvin klein ad that's causing quite a stir. one of their models being designated as plus size raising questions about what that term actually means. the 911 operator telling a robbery victim to stop chasing the suspect. technology that allowed police to track down that thief and what you should do in that same ...

>> exactly. and how are the cops supposed to get you out? put a helicopter up? >> do they send a drone? >> what do they do? that's a good question. coming up "the mix." pizza. the world's biggest pie and what the toppings say about you. >> can't wait for that. landing a spacecraft on top of a speeding comet. no, this is not a scene from "star trek." it's a risky mission happening right now. you're watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by colonial penn life insurance. brought to you by colonial penn life insurance. r brought to you by colonial penn...

>> the european space agency is landing a tiny spacecraft on a comet 300 million miles from earth. the comet is moving at a pretty good clip. here now abc's josh haskell. >> everything is exciting about rosetta. >> reporter: a comet is moving through space. on its tail, the rosetta probe belonging to the european space agency. it's been on a ten-year mission to make contact with a comet in just hours. >> i remember reading about it when it launched, and the arrival date was so far in the future. now it's so exciting that we're actually getting there. >> reporter: if successful, this would be o...