As Huygens peers, Europe cheers; Success of the space probe, flying by Saturn's largest moon Tuesday, gives the European Space Agency new clout.(WORLD)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: February 15, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Mark Sappenfield and Marc Young

DARMSTADT, GERMANY -- When the Cassini spacecraft sped by Saturn's largest moon, Titan, Tuesday in the early hours of the European morning, rocket scientists like Claudio Sollazzo weren't the only ones getting excited.

In the years since Dr. Sollazzo began working with the European Space Agency (ESA), questions from workaday Europeans were typically unvarying - and they were not about distant comets or the vistas of Mar...

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