May 9, 2003 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa into orbit. Its mission is to collect samples from a near Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. Hayabusa is scheduled to make contact with the asteroid in November 2005. As the spacecraft approaches its rendezvous date with the asteroid problems arise for the JAXA staff back on Earth.
Producer: Kiyoshi Inoue
Screenplay: Kiyoshi Inoue, Hiroshi Shirasaki
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Director of Photography: Satoru Karasawa
Writer: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Megumi Mizusawa
Yasuhiro Matoba
Kenichi Sakagami
enthusiastic fan of Hayabusa
Kawabuchi
Osamu KIta
Manabu Tajima
Atsuko Daito