Deborah Domingue (Planetary Science Institute), Carolyn Ernst (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), and Yoshikawa Makoto (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
On May 9, 2003, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched Hayabusa, the first mission to return an asteroid sample back to Earth. Fifteen years later, JAXA, in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), has sent a second mission to rendezvous with an asteroid, with the objective of returning yet another sample. Both Hayabusa […]