Astronomy & Space Science · Recorded milestone
Asteroid sample return
Recorded year2010
Japan's Hayabusa brings grains of asteroid Itokawa back to Earth; Hayabusa2 and NASA's OSIRIS-REx later return far larger samples.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.