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Did you know? Hayabusa 1 (Japanese asteroid probe, 2003-2010) was almost a total disaster: its engines failed, it lost fuel, two of its four ion engines broke, it was lost for 7 weeks. Yet in 2010 it returned to Earth with the first ever asteroid sample (from Itokawa). The Japanese space agency called it "stubborn beyond imagination".

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Hayabusa 1 (Japanese asteroid probe, 2003-2010) was almost a total disaster: its engines failed, it lost fuel, two of its four ion engines broke, it was lost for 7 weeks. Yet in 2010 it returned to Earth with the first ever asteroid sample (from Itokawa). The Japanese space agency called it "stubborn beyond imagination".

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