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Japan awaits spacecraft return with asteroid soil samples

by Mari Yamaguchi
| December 4, 2020 8:32 PM

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency said the Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully separated a capsule and sent it toward Earth to deliver samples from a distant asteroid that could provide clues to the origin of the solar system and life on our planet.

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