#RosettaAreWeThereYet * #WakeUpRosetta * How @LightspeedLeo #PinkLittleDragon & I celebrated the wake up call of #Rosetta on January 20th 2014 or "What do you do, when your little one's big wish is to wake up with Rosetta every day?" Solution: a DIY Roset

Hello #RosettaAmIThereYetToSeeWereYouBoldlyGoInNovember ?

* AKA #GiantLeap2014 *

So well, here I am - dreaming of "the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be at ESA’s operations centre in Germany in November, for the event celebrating the first landing on a comet".

 

But I cannot do this alone, so I am asking for your support:

If you help me and vote and share the enclosed link, there is a small chance, which could become a giant leap for me. To be in Darmstadt, when the world will be celebrating a never before seen touch down.

woobox.com/t25uir/vote/for/4488700r/

Voting will already close at 16:00 CEST on 21 August, but you can vote on every remaining day.

 

My eternal thanks definitely will be yours.

And in case of success many (probably not too scientifically substantiated, but very happy) touchdown tweets would follow

AND I'd promise to be your eyes and ears at ESOC and I'd post some very special pics of YOU at ESOC ;-)

 

Here some background about #Rosetta:

 

Isn't 2014 an exciting year ?!

The year when ESA did invite all of us to witness space history in the making:

Especially their cute stories about the adventures of @ESA_Rosetta and her little travelbuddy @Philae2014 do inspire old AND young to follow the story behind their amazing mission.

After 10 years of travelling through space these two little brave space travellers approached THEIR comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ready for a very special rendezvous.

What started with a small step back in 2004 will be topped with a giant leap in November - an unprecedented touch down of @Philae2014 on their #LuckyDuckyComet.

 

Already back in January our little son @LightspeedLeo watched fascinated ESA's stories of #WakeUpRosetta and as he wished to wake up with a Rosetta of his own, he asked me whether we could build a RosettaAndPhilae spacecraft together.

So we enjoyed a very nice afternoon building our own space buddies ;-)

 

The enclosed Flickr album shows my entry for the fun #RosettaAreWeThereYet contest, as well as some pics of the "birthday" of our personal #RosettaAndPhilae in January.

 

www.flickr.com/photos/spaceholix/sets/72157641670301343/

 

www.facebook.com/RosettaMission

sci.esa.int/rosetta/

 

P.S. Congrats to all involved in Rosetta Mission at @ESA - European Space Agency for securing your place in history with your mission.

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#WakeUpRosetta

January 20th 2014

 

… grab a tetra pak, card board, tin foil, self adhesive foil, spits of wood and - extremely important - some wobbly eyes for #Rosetta and #Philae

and then study the blueprints in the latest ESA- bulletin ...

 

Now a happy #MiniSpaceTweep and his #PinkLittleDragon wake up smiling together with THEIR #Rosetta every single morning ;-)

 

Now we are looking forward to the oncoming adventures of #Rosetta and #Philae

Done