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Japanese Spacecraft Bringing Back Space Rock

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the contaminating-the-planet dept.

phaic tan writes "Bridie Smith from the Sydney Morning Herald reports on the Hayabusa spacecraft returning to earth in June with samples from the Itokawa Asteroid: 'A Japanese spacecraft will land in Australia in June, bringing with it samples from an asteroid found 300 million kilometres from Earth. The unmanned Hayabusa spacecraft, launched in May 2003, will become the first spacecraft to bring asteroid material to Earth when it lands in Woomera, South Australia, later this year.'"

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  1. Best story title ever. by verbalcontract · · Score: 1, Troll

    They used the fly-fly machine to bring sky hard-things to the big blue room's floor!

  2. Space is the future. by bobs666 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Being able to acquire materials from space will be required. You can't explore space in a vacuum. LoL. Obama... to little to late.