Farthest sample-and-return mission

Farthest sample-and-return mission
Who
Hayabusa
What
first
Where
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When
On 13 June 2010, the Japanese space probe Hayabusa returned to Earth after a sampling mission to the Itokawa asteroid 300 million km from Earth. The probe landed successfully on the 250-m-wide (820-ft) asteroid on 25 November 2005 and collected dust samples for analysis back on Earth. The results were published in Science in August 2011.