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In a mission combining the latest Ion propulsion techniques and old-fashioned rock blasting, a Japanese spacecraft has set off to explore an asteroid and bring back bits of what it finds. Called Muses-C, the 510-kg. (1,124lb.) spacecraft was lifted into an elliptical solar-transfer orbit May 9 from...
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