On this day in 2014 - December 3rd - the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 was launched.

Hayabusa 2 is an asteroid sample-return mission which rendezvoused with near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in June 2018.




Mona Evans
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