Outback touchdown for Japan space capsule

By Tim Dornin
Updated December 6 2020 - 1:09pm, first published 1:02pm
A space capsule carrying asteroid samples briefly turned into a fireball before its outback landing.
A space capsule carrying asteroid samples briefly turned into a fireball before its outback landing.

After a six-year mission and a flight of hundreds of millions of kilometres, a Japanese space capsule carrying the first sub-surface asteroid samples has been safely retrieved after landing in the South Australian outback.

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