#OnceUponATime #CometLanding #GrandFinale @ESA_Rosetta following @Philae_2014 to #ChuryumovGerasimenko #P67

#OnceUponATime a spacecraft named #Rosetta was launched into the night sky. A long, long journey lay ahead of her, to uncover the mysteries of our solar system. Rosetta carried a little passenger, the lander #Philae. It had taken many many years to dream of that mission and now #Rosetta was on her way to the far off comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko.“

 

This is how the lovely tales of @ESA_Rosetta and her little travelbuddy @Philae_2014 are being told in an adorable youtube-comic series by @esa

( sci.esa.int/rosetta/53593-outreach-resources/#once-upon-a... )

 

I can't believe how quickly time flew by since January 20th 2014, when my then 3 year old son @LightspeedLeo my husband @travelholic and I started following this mission with #RosettaAreWeThereYet and #WakeUpRosetta.

While Leo sat there, watching the live feed and the little videos with sparkling eyes he said: “Mommy, I wish I could wake up together with Rosetta and Philae every morning“.

So we grabbed a tetra pak, card board, tin foil, self adhesive foil, spits of wood and - extremely important - some wobbly eyes for #Rosetta and #Philae and –after studying the blueprints in the latest ESA- bulletin started building our own spacecraft together.

 

Since then a happy #MiniSpaceTweep and his travelbuddy @PinkLilDragon wake up smiling together with THEIR #RosettaAndPhilae mobile every single morning ;-)

 

It was a pleasure for us to follow all their adventures online, to listen to Philippe Gaudon during #SpaceUpTLS in 2014 and see those amazing models at „Cité de l’Espace“ in Toulouse and also to visit the “Holy Grail of Rosetta“, its home base at ESOC in Darmstadt a few times, sitting on the chair of Flight Operations Director #FOD @Andrea Accomazzo in the Main Control Room #MCR and closely feeling the spirit and excitement of this very special place and sharing this with our friends from near and far.

 

In a few days, on September 30th @ESA_Rosetta will follow @Philae_2014 to its final destination and the two travelbuddies will be finally reunited on their #LuckyDucky #67P.

So I am looking forward to be at ESOC with @travelholic and many others then, sharing the #GrandFinale and the #CometLanding celebrations of a mission so well done by the awesome @esa teams around @AndreaAccomazzo and @mggtTaylor.

 

Congrats to all involved in #Rosetta Mission @ESA - European Space Agency for taking a(nother) giant leap in history, thank you very much for your inspiration and for sharing your ride with all of us.

Your 2 little space exlorers will always have a special place in our hearts!

YOU ROCK SPACE AND OUTREACH!

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