The European Space Agency has pulled the plug on the historic Rosetta mission to land a spacecraft on a comet. The postponement of the launch means that plans to rendezvous with the comet Wirtanen in 2011 are being scrapped. Scientists will have to redesign the ?600 million mission to target a different comet
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