ESA Director Discusses Space Missions
March 1st, 2007 By DAVID McHUGH, Associated Press Writer
David Southwood, director of Science at ESA gives a statement about the Rosetta Mission at the ESA European Space Operation Center in Darmstadt, southwestern Germany, Sunday, Feb. 25. 2007. European Rosetta spacecraft was on course for a close flyby of Mars on Sunday, a crucial maneuver in its meandering, 10-year voyage through the solar system to make the first soft landing on a comet. (AP Photo/Daniel Roland)
(AP) -- As a young space scientist in the early 1980s, David Southwood backed an offbeat idea for a joint U.S.-European mission to Saturn's moon Titan: Let the Europeans build the spacecraft's lander.
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