(1)Japan launches asteroid sampling probe

(1)Japan launches asteroid sampling probe

UCHINOURA, Japan - A Japanese M-5 rocket carrying the world's first space probe designed to retrieve surface samples from an asteroid blasts off from the Kagoshima Space Center in Uchinoura, Kagoshima Prefecture, on May 9.

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