Fred Jansen: How to land on a comet

"Fred Jansen: How to land on a comet" was filmed in March 2015 at TED2015.

Summary
"As manager of the Rosetta mission, Fred Jansen was responsible for the successful 2014 landing of a probe on the comet known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In this fascinating and funny talk, Jansen reveals some of the intricate calculations that went into landing the Philae probe on a comet 500 million kilometers from Earth — and shares some incredible photographs taken along the way." – Source: TED

TED Links

 * Fred Jansen
 * Subtitles and Transcript