. On this day in 2005 – November 19th – the Hayabusa spacecraft of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) became the first ever to lift off from an asteroid.
It had collected a sample of material from near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa, which it then returned to Earth.
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