On this day: 23 June 2015, ESA confirms that its Rosetta Mission will be extended until the end of September 2016, at which point the spacecraft will most likely be landed on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta’s nominal mission was originally funded until the end of December 2015, but ESA’s Science Programme Committee gave formal approval to continue the mission for an additional nine months.