The European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully completed its first ever attempt by launching Rosetta spacecraft in 2004 with an ultimate goal to make it orbit around the comet, dubbed "67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko" after a long chase of over 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles).

ESA's last Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)-5, Georges Lemaitre, successfully docked itself at the International Space Station after it was launched on July 29 from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The name of ATV-5 Georges Lemaitre is inspired from the Belgian priest and scientist who first formulated the Big Bang Theory.

A House Natural Resources committee hearing took place in which four bills were presented that aim to amend the Endangered Species Act. These four pieces of legislation are considered vital as they would take transparency of agencies determining the species as threatened or endangered to another level.

A European Space Agency astronaut and instructor recently reenacted Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's first-ever walk on the moon. They dubbed the Apollo 11 mission to the moon as `Apollo 11 under the Sea'. However, there was one major difference as they did not walk on the moon, but on the seafloor.