First materials returned from an asteroid

First materials returned from an asteroid
Who
Hayabusa
What
first
Where
Not Applicable ()
When
On 13 June 2010 the unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa, built and operated by the Japanese space agency JAXA, landed on Earth with its precious cargo of tiny grains of material collected from the surface of the asteroid Itokawa. It was the first spacecraft to lift off from an asteroid. The sample return capsule contained around 1,500 tiny solid grains, most of which are from the asteroid Itokawa.