Japan Aerospace Exploration
Dec 16 2005, Irani

The attempt to bring back the first ever rock samples from an asteroid has failed severely. And the Japanese space probe will likely stay in space for three years longer than planned, Japan’s space agency informed. The probe apparently succeeded in...

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