Philae is awake! The Philae comet lander was awakened from its long hibernation and was thoroughly checked out this week. It's all good news. The lander is currently attached to the Rosetta comet explorer, but will detach and land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko later this summer.
It's another robotic space explorer doing real science on a budget. Unlike, say, the manned ISS, which does little useful science while spending huge amounts of tax dollars and risking lives. So, of course, the government says “Let’s do less robotic exploration and more manned space missions!”
Our tax dollars, hard at work. They're just not working for us.
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