Champollion (spacecraft)
Champollion was a planned cometary rendezvous and landing spacecraft. It was named after Jean-François Champollion, a French Egyptologist known for translating the Rosetta stone.
Read more about Champollion (spacecraft): Rosetta Surface Science Package, Deep Space 4 / Space Technology 4
Famous quotes containing the word champollion:
“There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man’s and every being’s face. Physiognomy, like every other human science, is but a passing fable.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)