Hayabusa

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Yuko TakeuchiMegumi Mizusawa

Toshiyuki NishidaYasuhiro Matoba

Masahiro TakashimaKenichi Sakagami

Katsuhisa Namaseenthusiastic fan of Hayabusa

Shiro SanoKawabuchi

Shingo TsurumiOsamu KIta

Koji YamamotoManabu Tajima

Shizuka FujimotoAtsuko Daito

Shinji RokkakuSotaro Takaoka

Tarō SuwaChairman Tanabe