A spacecraft survived the closest encounter ever with a comet on Thursday, tracking it just 435 miles (700 kilometers) from the comet's nucleus. The agency's EPOXI spacecraft is expected to acquire data with two imagers and an infrared instrument of a comet named Hartley 2 as it traveled at speeds of more than 27,000 mph.
I think that this is very important to all scientists and Nasa because it is going to give very important info and new discoveries about comets and space in general that know one has ever had a chance to find out. This could be a revolutionary thing that is good for all space scientists around and it is also good that the comet didnt reck any of the expensive spacecraft
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