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.
Yuko Takeuchi
Megumi Mizusawa
Toshiyuki Nishida
Yasuhiro Matoba
Masahiro Takashima
Kenichi Sakagami
Katsuhisa Namase
enthusiastic fan of Hayabusa
Shiro Sano
Kawabuchi
Shingo Tsurumi
Osamu KIta
Koji Yamamoto
Manabu Tajima
Shizuka Fujimoto
Atsuko Daito
