Capsule returns to Earth in milestone for Japanese space missions

Capsule returns to Earth in milestone for Japanese space missions

Hirohiko Uematsu (R), technology director of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, poses with another JAXA official during a press conference at the agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Nov. 11, 2018. JAXA retrieved a capsule ejected from a space cargo vessel that returned to Earth the previous day bringing back experiment samples from the International Space Station in Japan's first such mission. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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