joining us from washington, rachel feldman of the "washington post." hernandez ofniela the "wall street journal." welcome one and all. it is so good to have three women here to talk about science and i look forward to it because this is such a great story. >> it is super exciting. tell me about rosetta and what was it about. what did we learn from it. >>, incredibly exciting. people know they are these large balls of ice and rock, that he how people don't know incredible they are. they are actually time capsules. when our solar system was forming, there were these little bits left over that became, it's omets or asteroids. we have a chance to understand where we all came from. the interesting thing to me about rosetta, there was the beauty of the images that returned, but we had the chance to learn that the water in our bodies was more like asteroids and comets. charlie: am i right in that this was a 12 year flight? >> that is right. in 2004. was iaunch was the rosetta actually had two different touchdowns. 2014.uched down in and today, the entire spac

joining us from washington, rachel feldman of the "washington post." hernandez ofniela the "wall street journal." welcome one and all. it is so goodo

. >> rose: rachel feldman, what do you love. this story? >> oh, i love a lot. this story.ng it since orbiter started on orbit the comet a coup of years ago. one of the things i love. end of the rosetta mission tsounds like maybe a waste of a billion-dollar spacecraft to crash it into a comet but it's actually the perfect way to end the mission. the comet is on outward leg of its orbit, so as the spacecraft got farther away it would have lost the sunlight it needed to power its system. so instead watching it slowly die or hoping five years from now they would be able to wake it up back up again, they decided to send it on this final nosedive into a particularly interesting part of the comet. the data they got from the crash landing today will contribute to the body of knowledge we have about this comet, and comets in general. so it's just this really awesome way to send off a really successful mission. >> rose: couplary now, can which is on i.f.c., has just begun its second season. series parodies notable documentary films like "the thin blue line" "nanuc of the north" and

from your right, rachel oswald, the, the foreign-policy reporter for cq roll call. elliot feldman, a partner at the law firm with the international trade practice.em jan, a liaison for the ronald reagan building and international trade center and president of deplane global enterprises. david, david, advisor of the director general. myron, former international bureau chief of the associated press, adjunct professor at george washington university school of media and public affairs the 100 seventh of the national press club. tim, the chief of staff of the principal adviser to the director general. john hughes, editor for, editor for bloom better year words and the 100 eighth presidentoror of the pres club. eric, senior news production specialist at the associated press and the committee whore arranged his luncheon. keith, spokesperson director of information and external relations division of the wto. the director press and ralph junior director of the china program at the eurasia center a vice president of the eurasia center. thank you.[app [applause] just last week, the wto annou

from your right, rachel oswald, the foreign policy reporter for cq roll call, elliot feldman, partner law firm, where he is the head of the international trade practice, jan du plain, embassy liaison for the ronald reagan building and international trade center and president of du plain global enterprises, david tinline, advisor to the director-general, myron belkind, former international bureau chief for the associated press, adjunct professor at george washington university school of media and public affairs, and the 107th president of the national press club, tim yeend, chief of staff and principal advisor to the director-general, john hughes, editor for bloomberg news first word dc and the 108th president of the national press club. skipping over our speaker for just a moment, erik meltzer, senior news production specialist at the associated press, and the press club's speakers committee member who arranged today's luncheon. thank you, erik. keith rockwell, spokesperson and director of information and external relations division of the world trade organization, fayeq wahedi, direc