Everything That Could go Wrong for Hayabusa Did, and Yet it Still Succeeded
Just about everything that could go wrong happened to the Hayabusa mission, yet it still made it back to Earth while carefully protecting 1,500 precious samples from asteroid Itokawa’s surface. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the Hayabusa on May 9, 2003. It landed on the asteroid’s surface on November 25 and 27, 2005, and…
