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.
as Megumi Mizusawa
as Yasuhiro Matoba
as Kenichi Sakagami
as enthusiastic fan of Hayabusa
as Kawabuchi
as Osamu KIta
as Manabu Tajima
as Atsuko Daito
as Sotaro Takaoka
as Chairman Tanabe
