Good News in History, June 13
16 years ago today, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, which it landed on in November 2005, returned to Earth. Hayabusa was the first spacecraft designed to deliberately land on an asteroid and then take off again, and indeed was
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16 years ago today, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, which it landed on in November 2005, returned to Earth. Hayabusa was the first spacecraft designed to deliberately land on an asteroid and then take off again, and indeed was
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