JAXA Searching Hayabusa Capsule For Samples
By Kazuki Shiibashi
Tokyo
Experts have started opening the sample canister from the Hayabusa asteroid mission after its safe recovery in the Australian outback June 13, but it remains to be seen if it actually contains material from the asteroid Itokawa.
Hayabusa landed twice on the small, potato-shaped asteroid Itokawa in November 2005, following its launch May 9, 2003, on an M-V rocket. But the sampling procedure did ...
