How Japan's Hayabusa Asteroid Mission Worked (Infographic)

by Karl Tate, SPACE.com Infographics Artist

Date: 11 June 2010 Time: 05:39 PM ET

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The Japanese Hayabusa Asteroid exploration mission overcame numerous system failures to return meteor samples to Earth.

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