Japan’s robot space invasion within 12 miles of asteroid
Space mission: Japanese probe pulls alongside asteroid
TOKYO —– Bringing Japan’s most complex space mission near its climax, a probe is within 12 miles of an asteroid almost 180 million miles…The probe’s first mission will be to survey the asteroid with cameras and infrared imaging gear. …before making its brief landing to recover the samples in early November….more….
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa space probe arrived at Itokawa — an asteroid named after the father of Japan’s space program Hideo Itokawa. Hayabusa probe will of couse send a robot the surface and collect 1 gram of dust and return the sample to Japan in June 2007……In other words, it’s a Japanese Robot Space Invasion, hee, hee.
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