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.

• DirectorYukihiko Tsutsumi
• Release1 October 2011
• Genre
  Adventure / Drama
• Duration2h 20m
• Budget?
• Revenue?
• Rate
  

  7.2
  5 reviews
• Productions

  20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Japan, Agung, Mainichi Shimbun, Office Crescendo, dentsu, KADOKAWA Shoten, Fox International Productions Japan, Sony Music Entertainment (Japan), 20th Century Fox Japan