JAXAs Hyabusa2 Touches down on Asteroid in World First

The Hayabusa2 probe made a “perfect” touchdown Thursday on a distant asteroid and collected samples from beneath the surface in an unprecedented mission that could shed light on the origins of the solar system.   “We’ve collected a part of the solar system’s history,” Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) project manager Yuichi Tsuda said at a jubilant news conference in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, hours after the successful landing was confirmed.   https://anchor.fm/space-news  https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast  https://youtube.com/spacenewspod  https://twitch.tv/spacenewspod  https://spacenewspodcast.com  https://twitter.com/spacenewspod  https://facebook.com/spacenewspod  https://instagram.com/spacenewspod1