After a journey lasting more than 10 years, a spacecraft is just days away from softly landing a robotic probe on a comet.

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft is scheduled to land the probe, dubbed Philae, on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday at 10:35 a.m. ET. The probe is supposed to land on the comet’s nucleus and then track the cosmic object and send data back to Earth as the comet continues on its path, hurtling past the sun.

NASA noted that if all goes as planned, it will be the first time a spacecraft makes a soft landing on a comet.

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