Mission Accomplished For Japan’s Asteroid Explorer Hayabusa « IndyPostedRight on the heels of other exciting news for Japan’s Space Agency (JAXA), the HAYABUSA asteroid explorer spacecraft has just completed its four billion mile (six billion kilometre) round-trip journey and scientists around the world are keeping their fingers crossed that its sample return capsule contains the first asteroid dust ever collected. Less than ten minutes ago Hayabusa (“Falcon”) broke
