Hayabusa returning home

Hayabusa returning home

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency professor Junichiro Kawaguchi (C) shakes hands with a project team member at a JAXA control center in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 9, 2010. The space agency completed adjusting the asteroid probe Hayabusa's trajectory from space as its return to Earth is slated for June 13. (Pool photo)

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