May 9, 2003 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa into orbit. Its mission is to collect samples from a near Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. Hayabusa is scheduled to make contact with the asteroid in November 2005. As the spacecraft approaches its rendezvous date with the asteroid problems arise for the JAXA staff back on Earth.


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Yuko Takeuchi
Megumi Mizusawa

Toshiyuki Nishida
Yasuhiro Matoba

Masahiro Takashima
Kenichi Sakagami

Katsuhisa Namase
enthusiastic fan of Hayabusa

Shirō Sano
Kawabuchi

Shingo Tsurumi
Osamu KIta

Koji Yamamoto
Manabu Tajima

Shizuka Fujimoto
Atsuko Daito

Shinji Rokkaku
Sotaro Takaoka