BBC - Spaceman: A perfect view of the asteroid capsule's Earth returnNothing can prevent it now. Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft is heading home after its seven-year round-trip to the asteroid Itokawa. A final trajectory correction has been performed and the spacecraft is on target to hit the atmosphere of Earth above Australia shortly before midnight (local time; about 1400 GMT). I wrote earlier in the week about some of the woes Hayabusa experienced as it tried to gr
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