Little more than two years ago, in June 2010, one of the most astonishing space missions of recent times ended when Japan's Hayabusa mission landed samples of an asteroid in the Australian outback.
The successful outcome had beaten all the odds. The robot probe suffered engine failures, a loss of fuel and communication breakdowns on its seven-year, six billion kilometre trip to explore an asteroid called Itokawa.
By: Paul Sutherland, Sen.com, Edited by: Ian Steadman
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/31/japan-asteroid-mission
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