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'The First Spacecraft to successfully land and take off from the surface of an Asteroid was the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa'. In 2005, it landed on the near-Earth Asteroid, Itokawa in order to collect samples. Hayabusa returned to Earth in June 2010.
Category : Asteroids
Article : Advances in Space Science
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