success!
The Hayabusa probe successfully landed on asteroid Itokawa and collected a sample. It has also lifted off in preparation for transmission of data back to mission control. The Hayabusa probe became the first unmanned spacecraft to take off from an extraterrestrial body a few days ago, a process that it has now completed twice. The probe will now make its way back to earth for a landing in June 2007 in the Australian outback and retrieval of the sample (another first). Congratulations to JAXA.
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