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Spacecraft awakened to confirm it is on-course

Europe's Rosetta space probe is on a quest to soft land on a comet. After two and a half years, the on-board alarm has gone off and now controllers are waiting to see if it will wake up to confirm it is on course. Chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, Derrick Pitts, joins the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts to explain the process.
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