On 12 November 1971, exactly 43 years ago, Ray Bradbury spoke to an audience at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the eve of Mariner 9 arriving at Mars. On stage with him were Arthur C. Clarke, Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Walter Sullivan. Bradbury read his poem, “If Only We Had Taller Been.”
Today, on 12 November 2014, the Philae spacecraft “docked” with the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.