Great Effort

We love "little engine that could" stories from space, even though JAXA's Hayabusa odyssey to the asteroid Itokawa may not have a happy ending. We applaud the audacity of sending a spacecraft 200 million mi. to set down just long enough to take samples from a revolving asteroid and then bring them...

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