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Bringing Back a Piece of Heaven
A damaged Japanese space probe is limping back home with what scientists pray will be
a little piece of an asteroid from deep space
BY James Oberg // March 2010
23 March 2010?A small, severely damaged spacecraft named Hayabusa is limping back to Earth
with a jury-rigged ion drive that would have made Star Trek’ s Scotty proud.
Already seven years into its planned five-year mission to retrieve soil samples from an asteroid,
the probe faces one last round of hazards before its midnight landing in Australia sometime
in June with a sample canister.
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