Hayabusa2 space probe project team given prime minister's award

Hayabusa2 space probe project team given prime minister's award

Yuichi Tsuda (L), manager of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 space probe project team, poses for a photo in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2020, along with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, after the team received the prime minister's award for successfully bringing home soil and gas samples from a distant asteroid for research into the origins of life and the evolution of the solar system.

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