Japanese Asteroid Probe Makes Historic Return to Earth
June 13, 2010 by AProbot
A Japanese space capsule returned to Earth and plunged through the atmosphere over the Australian outback Sunday, capping a seven-year space journey that took it to a nearby asteroid in a historic attempt to collect pieces of a billion-year-old space rock.
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