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Parking is no easy feat for space probe scientist

14 November 2014
Tattooed space scientist Matt Taylor finds it hard to get his head around parking
Tattooed space scientist Matt Taylor finds it hard to get his head around parking

 

A member of the Rosetta space mission may well be a brilliant scientist but, according to his family, he struggles when it comes to parking his car. 

Mission scientist Dr Matt Taylor was involved in the historic landing of the Philae robot craft on a speeding comet. Philae left Earth in 2004 and last month finally caught up with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after a four billion mile journey.

Scientists compared getting the fridge-sized robot onto the comet with a fly trying to land on a...

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