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The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) hits a home run with the Hayabusa spacecraft.  Not only did it fly to the asteroid Iwotaka, it also returned a sample!!  We should find out more soon.  We’ve wrote about the mission a few times, suffice it to say getting the spacecraft back to Earth was an exercise in due diligence by JAXA and I bet the whole country is thrilled.   The video shows the re-entry over Australia on June 13, 2010.

This was shown on some of the news stations, most could care less – pity.

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