DimorphosFragment t1_jdisyx6 wrote
Reply to comment by spacembracers in NASA prepares for a Sept. 24 delivery — the first time a U.S. mission returns an asteroid sample to Earth by marketrent
Japan's JAXA has done it twice. (But the first project returned very little.)
blipman17 t1_jdiv8hk wrote
What happened to the first project the? I can't find anything about it.
DimorphosFragment t1_jdkmtrm wrote
The first Hayabusa spacecraft malfunctioned during the sample collection attempt. It did manage to return several tiny grains of dust from an asteroid despite the sample collection mechanism not operating. There is quite a bit of information about it at wikipedia.
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