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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:15,962 --> 00:01:20,899 The capsule Hayabusa has brought from the asteroid Itokawa... 2 00:01:21,033 --> 00:01:23,661 ...holds tiny particles of dust. 3 00:01:23,803 --> 00:01:26,294 If they are from Itokawa... 4 00:01:26,406 --> 00:01:29,773 ...they will be the first brought from a celestial object... 5 00:01:29,909 --> 00:01:32,400 ...other than the Moon. 6 00:01:32,545 --> 00:01:36,447 Examination of particles from Itokawa could offer information... 7 00:01:36,549 --> 00:01:37,538 13 June 2010 8 00:01:37,617 --> 00:01:38,584 Woomera, South Australia 9 00:01:38,684 --> 00:01:41,676 ...on the solar system at the time it first took form... 10 00:02:25,097 --> 00:02:30,228 Does everyone know that our Earth is hurtling through space... 11 00:02:30,336 --> 00:02:34,636 ...at a simply incredible speed? 12 00:02:34,807 --> 00:02:40,677 In fact, the Earth is moving around the Sun at a speed of... 13 00:02:40,813 --> 00:02:43,281 ...110,000 kilometers per hour. 14 00:02:43,416 --> 00:02:45,782 Spring 2002 15 00:02:45,985 --> 00:02:49,751 We are about to send a space probe... 16 00:02:49,822 --> 00:02:52,985 ...to an asteroid 300 million kilometers away... 17 00:02:53,426 --> 00:02:55,758 ...across the solar system. 18 00:02:55,862 --> 00:02:57,796 How far is 300 million kilometers? 19 00:02:57,930 --> 00:03:02,264 It's twice the distance from Earth to the Sun. 20 00:03:02,368 --> 00:03:06,168 lf you shouted 'Hey!' at the speed of light... 21 00:03:06,305 --> 00:03:10,139 ...it would take over 30 minutes before you heard 'What?' 22 00:03:15,681 --> 00:03:18,343 Now comes the important part. 23 00:03:18,484 --> 00:03:24,684 Why are we going all the way to an asteroid? 24 00:03:25,124 --> 00:03:32,121 That is because a sample from Asteroid 1998SF36... 25 00:03:32,365 --> 00:03:38,668 ...might bring us closer to an explanation of how... 26 00:03:38,804 --> 00:03:42,365 ...our solar system was born. 27 00:03:42,909 --> 00:03:45,002 We will launch the probe... 28 00:03:45,545 --> 00:03:47,638 ...on a rocket. 29 00:03:47,747 --> 00:03:51,513 This is 'MUSES-C', the probe. 30 00:03:51,651 --> 00:03:56,179 It weighs just over 500 kilograms, less than a small car. 31 00:03:56,322 --> 00:03:59,314 You might worry that's too small... 32 00:03:59,425 --> 00:04:03,156 ...but with anything heavier aboard... 33 00:04:03,262 --> 00:04:07,596 ...our rocket can't lift it to where it needs to go. 34 00:04:07,733 --> 00:04:11,499 The Americans could just bang it up there... 35 00:04:11,604 --> 00:04:14,266 ...with a great big rocket. 36 00:04:16,175 --> 00:04:23,081 For propulsion our probe will use electricity, an 'ion thruster'. 37 00:04:23,783 --> 00:04:27,685 It is a very small, but very efficient engine... 38 00:04:27,787 --> 00:04:30,915 ...using xenon gas and solar power. 39 00:04:31,057 --> 00:04:34,584 But it exerts less force... 40 00:04:34,961 --> 00:04:37,759 ...than a human breath. 41 00:04:38,297 --> 00:04:43,291 It will only gain 4 meters per second in speed every day... 42 00:04:43,603 --> 00:04:48,199 ...but over thousands of hours that adds up to... 43 00:04:48,307 --> 00:04:51,071 ...quite a high speed. 44 00:04:51,377 --> 00:04:55,211 The probe will also increase its speed... 45 00:04:55,314 --> 00:04:59,273 ...using the Earth's orbital energy in a 'swing-by' maneuver. 46 00:04:59,619 --> 00:05:03,783 It will travel 2 billion kilometers on its outward voyage... 47 00:05:03,923 --> 00:05:06,915 ...touch briefly on the asteroid... 48 00:05:07,059 --> 00:05:11,758 ...gather surface dust and sand into the capsule it carries... 49 00:05:11,897 --> 00:05:14,127 ...and return to Earth. 50 00:05:14,266 --> 00:05:19,294 We call it a 'probe', but it's really a robot. 51 00:05:19,438 --> 00:05:22,430 There are many things... 52 00:05:22,575 --> 00:05:27,444 ...this one single mission seeks to accomplish. 53 00:05:27,747 --> 00:05:31,911 If this were America, we could fire a lot of rockets... 54 00:05:32,018 --> 00:05:34,578 ...but our budget is limited. 55 00:05:34,687 --> 00:05:38,851 So we have to pack all of them into one single shot. 56 00:05:39,358 --> 00:05:45,160 But Japan is only able now to attempt such a difficult mission... 57 00:05:45,297 --> 00:05:49,700 ...because of one man, Hideo Itokawa. 58 00:05:50,269 --> 00:05:54,968 He is known as the father of Japanese rocketry. 59 00:05:55,107 --> 00:05:57,871 It is his dream and his passion... 60 00:05:58,110 --> 00:06:01,204 ...that have brought us this far. 61 00:06:02,381 --> 00:06:05,782 I wish we'd gotten more people out. 62 00:06:05,885 --> 00:06:07,944 Your talk was quite interesting. 63 00:06:09,288 --> 00:06:10,277 Sorry. 64 00:06:10,356 --> 00:06:12,187 That's all right. Goodbye. 65 00:06:13,826 --> 00:06:14,884 Um... 66 00:06:16,162 --> 00:06:18,995 ...I was so moved! 67 00:06:19,532 --> 00:06:22,467 Your talk was very, uh... 68 00:06:22,835 --> 00:06:25,497 About the engine, and the breath... 69 00:06:26,072 --> 00:06:28,131 Well, thank you. 70 00:06:28,407 --> 00:06:31,376 The 'Nozomi' Mars orbiter... 71 00:06:31,844 --> 00:06:33,004 Yes. 72 00:06:33,412 --> 00:06:34,401 You bought that? 73 00:06:34,580 --> 00:06:35,672 I made it. 74 00:06:35,748 --> 00:06:37,477 You made it yourself? 75 00:06:37,550 --> 00:06:40,417 You did a good job! 76 00:06:40,553 --> 00:06:42,578 Even the deployable mast. 77 00:06:42,722 --> 00:06:45,384 No, that's the thermal plasma analyzer. 78 00:06:46,659 --> 00:06:47,648 Oh... 79 00:06:48,194 --> 00:06:49,593 That's right. 80 00:06:49,762 --> 00:06:53,254 I even registered for the 'Your Name to Mars' program. 81 00:06:53,399 --> 00:06:55,390 You did, did you? 82 00:06:55,534 --> 00:06:58,059 We had a very hard time... 83 00:06:58,204 --> 00:07:02,368 ...shrinking those 270,000 names onto 20 aluminum plates. 84 00:07:02,508 --> 00:07:05,602 Could I ask you something? 85 00:07:05,778 --> 00:07:06,767 Yes. 86 00:07:08,848 --> 00:07:13,285 Our geomorphologic studies in space are all based on planets. 87 00:07:13,419 --> 00:07:18,686 Since 1998SF36 has hardly any gravity, I suspect it will be something... 88 00:07:18,791 --> 00:07:21,089 ...we've never seen before. What do you think? 89 00:07:21,227 --> 00:07:23,627 I'm writing about this. 90 00:07:23,763 --> 00:07:28,257 About the aggregation of particles into a rubble pile. 91 00:07:28,367 --> 00:07:33,031 May I ask what exactly you do? Are you a student? 92 00:07:35,107 --> 00:07:36,096 No. 93 00:07:36,208 --> 00:07:39,609 I did grad work in crater morphology at Hokkaido. 94 00:07:39,812 --> 00:07:42,042 And asteroid geomorphology. 95 00:07:42,148 --> 00:07:46,585 Now I work part-time in a used-book store. 96 00:07:46,719 --> 00:07:49,153 Jupiter Books, in Kanda. 97 00:07:50,656 --> 00:07:52,590 Books on astronomy. 98 00:07:56,562 --> 00:07:58,587 I have to catch a bus. 99 00:08:01,300 --> 00:08:02,289 Wait... 100 00:08:02,802 --> 00:08:04,565 Here, take this. 101 00:08:06,071 --> 00:08:09,563 You can have it. It's something to read. 102 00:08:09,675 --> 00:08:12,473 MUSES-C Project Outline 103 00:08:15,815 --> 00:08:16,804 OK? 104 00:08:20,286 --> 00:08:21,947 Careful! 105 00:09:01,627 --> 00:09:03,618 'Brain Bread' 106 00:09:22,047 --> 00:09:24,515 17th-year Memorial Service 107 00:09:36,896 --> 00:09:38,921 Mom? 108 00:09:39,531 --> 00:09:45,265 I can't make it back for the service. I've got work, and my thesis. 109 00:09:47,172 --> 00:09:50,664 I want to defend it this year. 110 00:09:53,946 --> 00:09:57,677 Yeah, I haven't been to the grave for a while. 111 00:09:58,951 --> 00:10:04,446 No, I can't. I've just started a new part-time job. 112 00:10:04,857 --> 00:10:07,519 No, I'm fine. 113 00:10:07,626 --> 00:10:10,618 You take care of yourself. 114 00:10:11,063 --> 00:10:12,587 OK, bye. 115 00:10:31,317 --> 00:10:33,808 Summer 2002 116 00:10:43,062 --> 00:10:44,791 Jupiter Books... 117 00:10:44,930 --> 00:10:50,596 My name is Matoba. Could I speak to Ms Megumi Mizusawa? 118 00:10:50,736 --> 00:10:52,795 Speaking... 119 00:10:54,406 --> 00:10:55,805 Dr Matoba?! 120 00:10:57,009 --> 00:10:59,500 You remember me? 121 00:11:01,180 --> 00:11:03,148 Welcome! 122 00:11:03,916 --> 00:11:06,646 Thank you for talking to me the other day. 123 00:11:06,785 --> 00:11:09,845 Not at all. Do you have a minute? 124 00:11:11,357 --> 00:11:12,346 Hello? 125 00:11:12,458 --> 00:11:13,516 Yes? 126 00:11:13,692 --> 00:11:19,460 You studied crater morphology and asteroid geomorphology... 127 00:11:19,598 --> 00:11:20,587 Yes. 128 00:11:20,866 --> 00:11:23,858 Would you be interested in coming over here? 129 00:11:24,870 --> 00:11:25,859 Sorry? 130 00:11:26,005 --> 00:11:29,372 To the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science. 131 00:11:51,163 --> 00:11:53,563 This is Megumi Mizusawa... 132 00:11:53,665 --> 00:11:57,965 ...a research student who'll be joining Dr Hagiwara's lab. 133 00:11:58,237 --> 00:12:01,673 I've talked to Dr Hagiwara... 134 00:12:01,807 --> 00:12:06,710 ...and she'll be part of your MUSES-C camera team... 135 00:12:06,979 --> 00:12:10,244 ...and doing publicity work for me. 136 00:12:14,586 --> 00:12:16,747 'Mizusawa'. How do you do. 137 00:12:18,724 --> 00:12:20,191 Ah, Sakagami... 138 00:12:20,325 --> 00:12:22,418 Dr Hagiwara! 139 00:12:22,561 --> 00:12:24,927 You turned down my travel request! 140 00:12:25,064 --> 00:12:27,999 Indonesia we can handle, but not Chile. 141 00:12:28,100 --> 00:12:32,560 We can't calibrate the cameras with one fix on the guide stars! 142 00:12:32,871 --> 00:12:36,034 We're going over budget as it is. 143 00:12:37,843 --> 00:12:40,710 We could do it from a lower latitude. 144 00:12:43,048 --> 00:12:46,882 Hawaii, then. We'll have to adjust for the atmosphere. 145 00:12:47,186 --> 00:12:49,780 Our pictures need scientific value! 146 00:12:50,422 --> 00:12:53,186 You're head of the Science Team. Decide on our priorities! 147 00:12:56,462 --> 00:12:58,430 I've got work. 148 00:12:58,564 --> 00:12:59,690 Sakagami... 149 00:13:00,299 --> 00:13:02,563 ...this is Megumi Mizusawa. 150 00:13:02,634 --> 00:13:06,798 We're hoping she can help out with your team. 151 00:13:14,646 --> 00:13:17,979 Camera team! We've got multiband imaging to do. 152 00:13:26,391 --> 00:13:29,485 We'll be working you hard. I hope you're ready. 153 00:13:31,497 --> 00:13:32,657 Move it. 154 00:13:32,798 --> 00:13:33,890 Which way? 155 00:13:33,999 --> 00:13:35,261 Uh, right. 156 00:13:35,934 --> 00:13:36,958 Sorry, no... 157 00:13:43,342 --> 00:13:48,439 It's just a test lunar analysis! How long are you going to take?! 158 00:13:48,580 --> 00:13:51,811 There's clouds in the way! Do we analyze them? 159 00:13:52,251 --> 00:13:53,411 Make it happen! 160 00:13:56,288 --> 00:13:57,687 Raise the brightness! 161 00:13:57,823 --> 00:14:00,917 You've got to really know your camera... 162 00:14:01,026 --> 00:14:02,687 ...to get good data. 163 00:14:02,828 --> 00:14:06,491 They've announced December as our launch window. 164 00:14:06,632 --> 00:14:07,997 It's now or never! 165 00:14:09,601 --> 00:14:12,331 Hey, there's the Moon. 166 00:14:14,873 --> 00:14:16,204 You made that happen? 167 00:14:18,877 --> 00:14:20,970 Ms Mizusawa, could you please... 168 00:14:21,713 --> 00:14:24,045 ...summarize these papers on debris? 169 00:14:24,183 --> 00:14:27,846 And you can do camera-smear correction, right? 170 00:14:28,554 --> 00:14:30,852 More or less. How long do I have? 171 00:14:31,023 --> 00:14:32,354 Just two days. 172 00:14:32,758 --> 00:14:34,521 Thanks. 173 00:14:49,374 --> 00:14:50,602 Excuse me. 174 00:15:09,127 --> 00:15:10,116 Center it. 175 00:15:13,065 --> 00:15:14,430 Watch your fingers. 176 00:15:25,577 --> 00:15:26,566 Ready. 177 00:15:26,645 --> 00:15:27,634 Fire. 178 00:15:27,746 --> 00:15:30,647 3, 2, 1, 0. 179 00:15:34,987 --> 00:15:35,976 Replay it. 180 00:15:39,157 --> 00:15:40,146 Speed? 181 00:15:40,259 --> 00:15:41,590 5.4. 182 00:15:41,660 --> 00:15:42,888 5.4? 183 00:15:46,164 --> 00:15:48,155 Mizusawa, that way. 184 00:15:49,668 --> 00:15:50,930 Wait... 185 00:16:02,481 --> 00:16:04,745 It folds into the Minus Z-Panel. 186 00:16:04,850 --> 00:16:06,579 400mm long? 187 00:16:06,685 --> 00:16:10,451 It's supposed to extend to 1000 at T plus 20 minutes. 188 00:16:10,589 --> 00:16:13,990 We found a more efficient textile for the horn. 189 00:16:14,126 --> 00:16:17,755 Yes, they use it in bullet-proofing. It should work. 190 00:16:17,863 --> 00:16:18,921 It should? 191 00:16:19,031 --> 00:16:21,693 Let's get started testing some, then. 192 00:16:30,509 --> 00:16:31,498 The sampler horn. 193 00:16:32,210 --> 00:16:35,179 You're the new girl in Dr Hagiwara's lab? 194 00:16:36,715 --> 00:16:40,116 I'm sorry. My name's Mizusawa. 195 00:16:40,786 --> 00:16:43,346 Tajima, Sampler Development Team. 196 00:16:49,561 --> 00:16:50,619 This tube... 197 00:16:50,729 --> 00:16:54,995 ...retracts when the probe touches. 198 00:16:55,300 --> 00:16:59,794 A pellet will be fired down it into the asteroid's surface. 199 00:17:00,038 --> 00:17:03,565 The fragments that fly up will be brought back. 200 00:17:05,243 --> 00:17:09,339 Yes, of course! Without gravity, things fly up. 201 00:17:09,481 --> 00:17:11,881 Sometimes the simplest idea works. 202 00:17:12,084 --> 00:17:14,917 You don't need any special equipment. 203 00:17:15,053 --> 00:17:17,715 You just wait and gather it in. 204 00:17:17,856 --> 00:17:19,187 Mizusawa... 205 00:17:23,595 --> 00:17:24,687 Ion current? 206 00:17:24,830 --> 00:17:25,819 Check. 207 00:17:32,904 --> 00:17:36,362 Now I'll show you something interesting. 208 00:17:36,908 --> 00:17:40,901 This is a vital part of the history of Japanese rocketry. 209 00:17:41,413 --> 00:17:43,847 This is the first real rocket... 210 00:17:43,949 --> 00:17:47,885 ...made in Japan by Dr Itokawa and his team. 211 00:17:49,287 --> 00:17:51,949 And why did it end up the size of a pencil? 212 00:17:52,090 --> 00:17:57,027 Gunpowder in postwar Japan only came in capsules like this. 213 00:17:57,195 --> 00:17:59,789 As far as launching it... 214 00:17:59,931 --> 00:18:02,593 ...they didn't have tracking radar. 215 00:18:02,934 --> 00:18:06,028 So without that how could they observe it... 216 00:18:06,138 --> 00:18:08,868 ...after they'd launched it? 217 00:18:09,241 --> 00:18:11,607 So everyone talked about it... 218 00:18:11,743 --> 00:18:16,203 ...and said, 'If it can't go up, why not sideways?' 219 00:18:16,314 --> 00:18:19,215 And so they fired them horizontally. 220 00:18:19,951 --> 00:18:26,049 They launched more than 30 a month, which is an amazing number. 221 00:18:26,291 --> 00:18:32,594 Then with what they learned, they started pointing them up. 222 00:18:32,998 --> 00:18:37,298 And this is some very important footage. 223 00:18:37,469 --> 00:18:41,405 Failure is the key to progress in space research. 224 00:18:41,606 --> 00:18:46,407 But 'failure' is a word Dr Itokawa would not use. 225 00:18:46,511 --> 00:18:49,810 He talked only about 'results'. 226 00:18:50,348 --> 00:18:55,115 As long you have these results, you're making progress. 227 00:18:55,287 --> 00:18:56,447 Lights, please. 228 00:18:57,155 --> 00:19:01,489 Dr Itokawa was a very interesting man. 229 00:19:01,626 --> 00:19:03,821 He played the cello... 230 00:19:03,962 --> 00:19:09,264 ...but it was awkward to carry, so he made one that folded up. 231 00:19:11,069 --> 00:19:13,333 When he was 63, he took up ballet dancing. 232 00:19:16,141 --> 00:19:18,371 You're at the space lab, right? 233 00:19:18,477 --> 00:19:21,275 Why do you work part-time here? 234 00:19:22,647 --> 00:19:26,447 Part-time there pays almost nothing. I have to work here to get by. 235 00:19:29,054 --> 00:19:33,821 No one wants to pay for something they don't see a use for. 236 00:19:35,193 --> 00:19:39,220 But isn't Hokkaido University one of the best schools in Japan? 237 00:19:40,532 --> 00:19:41,897 So what? 238 00:20:02,654 --> 00:20:03,643 Um... 239 00:20:04,523 --> 00:20:05,922 Yes? What is it? 240 00:20:06,424 --> 00:20:09,416 How does a rocket fly on electricity? 241 00:20:11,596 --> 00:20:16,898 You mean 'space probes', not rockets. 242 00:20:17,335 --> 00:20:21,931 And strictly speaking, it's not only electricity they fly on. 243 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:24,440 Xenon gas, or 'Xe', is microwaved to create plasma... 244 00:20:24,543 --> 00:20:26,704 ...which emits high-energy ions. 245 00:20:26,778 --> 00:20:29,679 These have a positive charge. 246 00:20:29,748 --> 00:20:33,582 As these are emitted the craft takes on a negative charge. 247 00:20:33,685 --> 00:20:38,281 Because the ions then backflow... 248 00:20:38,456 --> 00:20:41,687 ...we counter this with an external neutralizer... 249 00:20:41,860 --> 00:20:43,794 ...to neutralize the beam. 250 00:20:43,895 --> 00:20:46,386 This uses microwaves, too... 251 00:20:51,236 --> 00:20:53,932 You see? If you study hard... 252 00:20:54,272 --> 00:20:57,241 ...some day you'll be as smart as her! 253 00:20:57,309 --> 00:20:58,298 Thanks. 254 00:21:01,713 --> 00:21:06,047 We need to know more about the results of our final tests. 255 00:21:06,117 --> 00:21:08,813 We're waiting for Mr Sakagami. 256 00:21:09,220 --> 00:21:10,209 I'll go ask him. 257 00:21:12,157 --> 00:21:15,957 We're getting nowhere with the flat-field correction. 258 00:21:16,061 --> 00:21:18,962 Rocks or craters, what comes first? 259 00:21:19,831 --> 00:21:21,924 Asteroid shape comes first! 260 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,934 Come on, will you! 261 00:21:24,002 --> 00:21:27,836 First we have to deliver a camera that works! 262 00:21:29,341 --> 00:21:30,399 The Americans... 263 00:21:30,475 --> 00:21:35,742 ...would have different cameras for navigation and for observation. 264 00:21:35,847 --> 00:21:39,647 We're trying to do it with one. 265 00:21:39,751 --> 00:21:43,118 We have to make sure it does those things right. 266 00:21:43,755 --> 00:21:48,089 That's the very basic part. Get that done, please. 267 00:21:51,329 --> 00:21:55,095 Can't you at least decide on observation priorities? 268 00:21:55,166 --> 00:21:58,135 How long will morphology take? 269 00:21:58,203 --> 00:22:00,433 We need to balance tasks! 270 00:22:00,538 --> 00:22:03,974 I need guide-star imaging parameters. 271 00:22:04,042 --> 00:22:05,873 1. Smear correction. 2. Summary. 272 00:22:05,977 --> 00:22:08,138 3. Useful references 273 00:22:23,061 --> 00:22:24,050 Here. 274 00:22:26,665 --> 00:22:27,723 Well done. 275 00:22:28,733 --> 00:22:30,394 Is Sakagami working you hard? 276 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:39,336 It's very hard to explain things, isn't it. 277 00:22:41,246 --> 00:22:42,804 You mean the front desk? 278 00:22:44,716 --> 00:22:48,379 Kids ask really basic questions. 279 00:22:49,154 --> 00:22:52,988 'Why is space black when the sky's blue?' 280 00:22:53,391 --> 00:22:58,886 You say 'wavelengths' or 'particles', but they don't understand that. 281 00:22:59,497 --> 00:23:05,902 You realize you're mainly talking to make sure you understand it. 282 00:23:06,871 --> 00:23:09,101 That still happens to me. 283 00:23:09,541 --> 00:23:10,735 Even now? 284 00:23:14,012 --> 00:23:15,001 Dr Matoba! 285 00:23:15,547 --> 00:23:17,777 Shigeo Nagashima added his name? 286 00:23:17,916 --> 00:23:19,076 Perfect timing! 287 00:23:19,184 --> 00:23:22,950 This is Kita. He's in charge of the ion-drive engine. 288 00:23:23,088 --> 00:23:24,077 Hello. 289 00:23:24,189 --> 00:23:25,247 How do you do. 290 00:23:26,257 --> 00:23:28,088 It's not just baseball players. 291 00:23:28,193 --> 00:23:32,527 Steven Spielberg and Paul Newman sent theirs in, too. 292 00:23:32,597 --> 00:23:33,586 Right? 293 00:23:33,965 --> 00:23:36,957 We're putting 880,000 names on it. 294 00:23:37,068 --> 00:23:40,094 Even Nozomi only had 270,000. 295 00:23:40,238 --> 00:23:43,765 I'd like to go deeper into all this. 296 00:23:44,542 --> 00:23:46,601 Could I read what we've got? 297 00:23:51,149 --> 00:23:53,379 Let me introduce you. 298 00:23:53,718 --> 00:23:57,620 This is Ms Mizusawa. She's working with Dr Hagiwara. 299 00:23:57,722 --> 00:24:00,953 Dr Kawabuchi is the MUSES-C Project Manager. 300 00:24:01,426 --> 00:24:03,155 An expert in orbit design. 301 00:24:04,095 --> 00:24:05,960 How do you do. 302 00:24:06,898 --> 00:24:07,887 Hello. 303 00:24:07,966 --> 00:24:09,399 Do you have a minute? 304 00:24:09,567 --> 00:24:10,966 I'll come to the conference room. 305 00:24:11,803 --> 00:24:12,792 This way... 306 00:24:18,777 --> 00:24:20,472 This is our reference archive. 307 00:24:21,112 --> 00:24:24,980 We keep everything related to our missions here. 308 00:24:27,318 --> 00:24:30,151 We're tax funded, so we have to. 309 00:24:32,490 --> 00:24:33,980 Take anything you want. 310 00:24:48,339 --> 00:24:49,328 Sorry. 311 00:24:50,508 --> 00:24:51,634 About Nozomi... 312 00:24:51,876 --> 00:24:54,970 The press says it might crash on Mars. 313 00:24:55,113 --> 00:24:57,047 Can you cool them down? 314 00:24:57,515 --> 00:25:00,973 Harada's team is fixing the electrical system... 315 00:25:01,686 --> 00:25:05,144 We're almost over 99 percent sure it'll stay in orbit. 316 00:25:05,723 --> 00:25:08,749 Once we've cleared that legal hurdle, we'll fix the other things. 317 00:25:09,894 --> 00:25:10,883 All right. 318 00:25:30,181 --> 00:25:34,811 In asteroid exploration, this method will bring more substantial results. 319 00:25:34,886 --> 00:25:37,377 1985. 320 00:25:37,488 --> 00:25:40,389 'Sample return' will make plain the effects... 321 00:25:40,491 --> 00:25:45,053 ...of space weathering, solar wind, and micrometeorites on asteroid surfaces. 322 00:25:45,163 --> 00:25:48,496 It is a very advanced and important method. 323 00:25:48,566 --> 00:25:51,865 What are your candidate asteroids? 324 00:25:52,070 --> 00:25:54,561 Going from meteors we've observed... 325 00:25:54,772 --> 00:26:00,108 ...near-Earth asteroids such as 1982 BD are our best candidates. 326 00:26:00,545 --> 00:26:02,172 It's a crazy idea. 327 00:26:02,247 --> 00:26:05,045 We can't keep tagging along with the Americans! 328 00:26:05,183 --> 00:26:06,844 We need our own ideas! 329 00:26:06,918 --> 00:26:08,442 We can't do all that! 330 00:26:08,553 --> 00:26:09,542 Wait! 331 00:26:09,621 --> 00:26:12,920 Even if we get a sample, how do we get it back? 332 00:26:13,224 --> 00:26:15,624 We can't protect it like a space shuttle. 333 00:26:16,027 --> 00:26:17,961 It'll just burn up. 334 00:26:18,363 --> 00:26:19,352 Listen! 335 00:26:19,764 --> 00:26:23,632 Can we think about how we do it, not why we can't? 336 00:26:28,206 --> 00:26:29,901 The shuttle uses ceramic shielding. 337 00:26:30,108 --> 00:26:31,769 Why don't we use carbon? 338 00:26:32,644 --> 00:26:35,204 That'll stand higher temperatures. 339 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:36,538 Yeah! 340 00:26:37,148 --> 00:26:40,709 And we don't operate the probe from Earth. 341 00:26:40,952 --> 00:26:43,580 We make it operate itself. 342 00:26:43,721 --> 00:26:46,087 And not chemical propulsion. 343 00:26:47,258 --> 00:26:48,623 It won't carry enough. 344 00:26:49,394 --> 00:26:51,123 We'll use electricity. 345 00:26:58,469 --> 00:27:01,734 Japan will attempt sample return... 346 00:27:01,806 --> 00:27:03,000 1993 347 00:27:03,474 --> 00:27:07,274 ...using ion-drive propulsion. 348 00:27:08,980 --> 00:27:12,746 'In 1995, ten years after its inception... 349 00:27:13,117 --> 00:27:16,780 '...the Space Activities Commission formally approved... 350 00:27:16,988 --> 00:27:20,014 '...the ''Step into the Unknown'' program.' 351 00:27:21,492 --> 00:27:22,652 'Step into the Unknown'? 352 00:27:47,485 --> 00:27:48,474 Hi. 353 00:27:52,056 --> 00:27:53,080 Was the work OK? 354 00:27:53,191 --> 00:27:56,490 Very good. Two typos, but otherwise no problem. 355 00:27:57,362 --> 00:27:58,351 Sorry. 356 00:27:58,429 --> 00:27:59,418 What's that? 357 00:28:00,031 --> 00:28:02,829 Something to help explain MUSES-C... 358 00:28:06,771 --> 00:28:10,764 'Muses-C's Diary'... like Thomas the Tank Engine? 359 00:28:11,342 --> 00:28:12,366 No. 360 00:28:14,379 --> 00:28:16,404 We have no budget, so I want to try things. 361 00:28:17,548 --> 00:28:21,575 No one has any budget. We're a low-cost mission. 362 00:28:23,221 --> 00:28:28,124 When I tried to get money to go abroad from Dr Hagiwara... 363 00:28:28,593 --> 00:28:31,687 ...he called it robbery. 364 00:28:32,296 --> 00:28:34,628 He approved it in the end, though. 365 00:28:35,233 --> 00:28:37,133 I sympathize with him. 366 00:28:41,205 --> 00:28:43,730 You've been with the project all along, right? 367 00:28:43,808 --> 00:28:44,797 All along? 368 00:28:44,909 --> 00:28:48,401 It said you were part of the 1985 research group. 369 00:28:48,579 --> 00:28:51,070 You've done your homework. I was a student. 370 00:28:53,084 --> 00:28:54,073 Yeah... 371 00:28:55,086 --> 00:28:58,078 Ten years in conception, seven in development. 372 00:28:58,389 --> 00:29:01,552 A long road, with a lot of ups and downs. 373 00:29:01,759 --> 00:29:02,817 17 years... 374 00:29:04,162 --> 00:29:08,496 Our first probe was too heavy, so the launch was postponed. 375 00:29:08,933 --> 00:29:13,597 Another rocket failed to launch, and we were postponed again. 376 00:29:13,838 --> 00:29:16,238 Our target's changed three times. 377 00:29:17,075 --> 00:29:20,636 We only settled on SF36 a little while ago. 378 00:29:21,112 --> 00:29:22,636 So now it's do or die... 379 00:29:25,917 --> 00:29:29,148 You know what the three most important things are? 380 00:29:29,754 --> 00:29:33,190 High-efficiency, low cost... 381 00:29:33,291 --> 00:29:35,020 Lightness, and low energy-consumption. 382 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,661 With these figures, the probe won't fly. 383 00:29:38,763 --> 00:29:40,355 It has to be 10 percent lighter. 384 00:29:41,799 --> 00:29:46,532 It's a battle of low cost against low weight and low energy. 385 00:29:46,971 --> 00:29:48,962 We can't make it any lighter! 386 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:55,377 We went through a lot of grief trying to accomplish that. 387 00:29:56,147 --> 00:29:57,944 Just this one diode! 388 00:29:58,282 --> 00:30:00,147 With that... 389 00:30:00,485 --> 00:30:04,819 ...there's a chance we can save it if anything goes wrong. 390 00:30:04,889 --> 00:30:07,483 I understand that, Professor. 391 00:30:07,725 --> 00:30:11,126 But the weight goes up, and we've finished the trials! 392 00:30:11,996 --> 00:30:15,830 We can't rate it now. There's no money! 393 00:30:16,234 --> 00:30:18,828 We don't have enough back-up! 394 00:30:19,337 --> 00:30:21,328 With this we will! 395 00:30:21,639 --> 00:30:23,334 We went to the same school! 396 00:30:23,875 --> 00:30:25,069 Yeah, but... 397 00:30:25,343 --> 00:30:26,833 Do something! Please! 398 00:30:27,044 --> 00:30:29,342 Excuse us... 399 00:30:30,181 --> 00:30:34,015 We want to make something like this. 400 00:30:36,854 --> 00:30:38,014 We can do this. 401 00:30:39,757 --> 00:30:40,746 It'll be heavy. 402 00:30:41,759 --> 00:30:43,386 There's a 'target marker'. 403 00:30:43,728 --> 00:30:47,027 To mark where the probe will come down. 404 00:30:47,098 --> 00:30:50,192 It'll have 880,000 names on it, right? 405 00:30:50,601 --> 00:30:53,035 Making that was hard. 406 00:30:53,204 --> 00:30:57,607 There's no gravity, so as soon as it touched... 407 00:30:57,708 --> 00:30:59,369 ...it'd just bounce back up. 408 00:30:59,443 --> 00:31:03,038 We have to find a way that it doesn't bounce. 409 00:31:03,381 --> 00:31:05,008 The space lab guys! 410 00:31:05,216 --> 00:31:07,241 Hello. 411 00:31:07,418 --> 00:31:09,909 I know something that won't bounce. 412 00:31:12,223 --> 00:31:13,212 Watch this. 413 00:31:22,233 --> 00:31:25,202 The man owned a machine shop... 414 00:31:25,269 --> 00:31:28,898 ...and one of his people had the idea to use bean-bags. 415 00:31:29,140 --> 00:31:31,904 They disperse the energy! 416 00:31:32,243 --> 00:31:36,111 The beads rub together and absorb the energy that makes it bounce. 417 00:31:36,214 --> 00:31:37,146 That's right. 418 00:31:37,248 --> 00:31:41,742 Then Mr Kita found out it would cost a million yen to rent a machine... 419 00:31:41,819 --> 00:31:43,252 ...to pump the xenon. 420 00:31:43,588 --> 00:31:44,748 'I'll make one,' he said. 421 00:31:45,122 --> 00:31:46,919 And he really did! 422 00:31:47,992 --> 00:31:50,927 He loves that stuff. 423 00:31:50,995 --> 00:31:52,053 See you. 424 00:31:52,430 --> 00:31:53,590 Goodbye. 425 00:32:07,612 --> 00:32:10,103 Ministry of Education & Science 426 00:32:13,985 --> 00:32:14,974 Mr Yabuki... 427 00:32:16,787 --> 00:32:18,118 ...this time we're fine. 428 00:32:18,789 --> 00:32:20,848 We will launch this December. 429 00:32:21,325 --> 00:32:23,122 You're sure of that? 430 00:32:23,794 --> 00:32:26,991 I'm hard-pressed to convince the Minister. 431 00:32:27,932 --> 00:32:32,164 As I'm sure you're aware, we are under budget constraints. 432 00:32:33,537 --> 00:32:34,595 Count on it. 433 00:32:35,973 --> 00:32:38,464 And you'll be at Uchinoura for the launch? 434 00:32:44,515 --> 00:32:45,675 External Relations... 435 00:32:47,151 --> 00:32:48,140 What?! 436 00:32:48,352 --> 00:32:50,980 The reaction control O-rings are late? 437 00:32:51,555 --> 00:32:52,544 And? 438 00:32:53,157 --> 00:32:54,146 Postponed? 439 00:32:54,292 --> 00:32:56,317 Oh, all right. 440 00:33:00,298 --> 00:33:01,492 We've got trouble. 441 00:33:01,999 --> 00:33:04,229 We're postponed. Till May! 442 00:33:04,335 --> 00:33:05,393 Fish? 443 00:33:05,670 --> 00:33:09,731 The Fishing Cooperatives won't budge. 444 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,400 It's their peak season. It means billions of yen. 445 00:33:13,711 --> 00:33:15,178 What's the matter? 446 00:33:15,513 --> 00:33:18,880 They can't fish in the restricted zone when we launch. 447 00:33:19,083 --> 00:33:21,984 It involves cooperatives in five prefectures. 448 00:33:22,253 --> 00:33:24,813 This is trouble! 449 00:33:27,692 --> 00:33:30,422 Fishing is important, but so's our launch! 450 00:33:32,196 --> 00:33:33,754 Why not just wait till summer... 451 00:33:33,864 --> 00:33:35,422 Kochi 452 00:33:36,901 --> 00:33:40,200 ...when the fish aren't here? 453 00:33:41,105 --> 00:33:43,767 Well, you see... 454 00:33:47,912 --> 00:33:48,936 Uh... 455 00:33:49,513 --> 00:33:51,674 This is the Sun, right? 456 00:33:52,083 --> 00:33:56,042 If we launch at this time, our probe... 457 00:33:56,253 --> 00:33:59,120 ...goes 'zoom!' around the Earth... 458 00:33:59,223 --> 00:34:02,886 ...and then the probe can make it to its target. 459 00:34:03,027 --> 00:34:04,255 Back! 460 00:34:06,897 --> 00:34:08,455 If the timing's wrong... 461 00:34:08,566 --> 00:34:12,229 ...and it goes up and we still use the Earth's power... 462 00:34:12,303 --> 00:34:15,431 ...we can't catch up with the asteroid... 463 00:34:15,573 --> 00:34:18,064 ...our target. 464 00:34:18,142 --> 00:34:19,268 We can't. 465 00:34:19,610 --> 00:34:21,578 We don't catch up with it. See what I mean? 466 00:34:24,148 --> 00:34:25,410 Which means... 467 00:34:26,951 --> 00:34:27,940 ...please! 468 00:34:30,221 --> 00:34:32,746 Miyazaki 469 00:34:32,823 --> 00:34:36,054 The University of Tokyo Professor has to sing! 470 00:34:36,894 --> 00:34:40,091 'Todai' is my school, and 'Kyodai Bune' is about fishing... 471 00:34:40,164 --> 00:34:42,132 No! Not that song! 472 00:34:42,266 --> 00:34:45,394 The Cooperative Director sings that! 473 00:34:45,469 --> 00:34:46,458 Oh. 474 00:34:46,570 --> 00:34:47,662 We have fine sake in Kagoshima! 475 00:34:47,772 --> 00:34:48,739 Kagoshima 476 00:34:48,806 --> 00:34:50,398 Yes, that's true. 477 00:34:50,474 --> 00:34:52,772 But back to the solar system... 478 00:34:52,843 --> 00:34:56,108 I understand that, but then we can't fish. 479 00:34:56,614 --> 00:34:59,276 But technology is the future! 480 00:34:59,350 --> 00:35:00,339 Fine! 481 00:35:01,285 --> 00:35:03,947 You go into space, and we go to sea. 482 00:35:04,288 --> 00:35:06,119 We both care just as much. 483 00:35:07,625 --> 00:35:10,321 Since we see eye to eye, one more drink! 484 00:35:10,428 --> 00:35:11,417 Let's go! 485 00:35:11,495 --> 00:35:13,429 I've had enough! 486 00:35:13,497 --> 00:35:14,486 Yes! Let's go! 487 00:35:14,598 --> 00:35:16,122 I'm done! 488 00:35:21,472 --> 00:35:23,963 May, 2003 489 00:35:27,545 --> 00:35:29,945 Uchinoura Space Center 490 00:35:31,649 --> 00:35:33,640 The launch rehearsal's complete? 491 00:35:35,820 --> 00:35:37,287 How's our time? 492 00:35:37,721 --> 00:35:40,053 Operation check complete. 493 00:35:40,157 --> 00:35:41,522 We're into countdown. 494 00:35:45,496 --> 00:35:48,988 Commencing ion engine control check. 495 00:35:49,300 --> 00:35:51,063 2, 1, 0... 496 00:35:52,403 --> 00:35:54,997 Power supply confirmed. 497 00:35:55,306 --> 00:35:56,671 Accumulator pressure? 498 00:35:56,807 --> 00:35:59,002 Normal. 0.19 megapascals. 499 00:36:02,413 --> 00:36:07,908 A toast from the town of Uchinoura for the launch of MUSES-C. 500 00:36:08,552 --> 00:36:09,849 Good luck! 501 00:36:15,559 --> 00:36:20,258 '''Come home! 502 00:36:20,364 --> 00:36:24,357 '''Be sure you do...'' 503 00:36:24,602 --> 00:36:29,437 'Said at Mt Oiwake... 504 00:36:29,540 --> 00:36:33,670 '...with a wave of the hand.' 505 00:36:38,682 --> 00:36:42,083 My pee coefficient always goes up before a launch. 506 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:43,509 So... 507 00:36:44,889 --> 00:36:47,050 ...want to bet whether it comes back? 508 00:36:48,559 --> 00:36:50,527 Which side are you taking? 509 00:36:52,563 --> 00:36:54,053 Gentlemen! 510 00:36:54,298 --> 00:36:55,890 Time to cast off! 511 00:36:56,967 --> 00:36:58,229 There's rough seas ahead! 512 00:37:01,906 --> 00:37:06,934 9 May 2003 513 00:37:14,285 --> 00:37:15,752 They've settled on your name. 514 00:37:17,087 --> 00:37:18,315 'Falcon'. 515 00:37:21,892 --> 00:37:24,258 We're counting on you, 'Hayabusa'. 516 00:37:33,437 --> 00:37:34,927 Ready for launch sequence. 517 00:37:35,272 --> 00:37:36,261 Initiate. 518 00:37:37,942 --> 00:37:42,106 We will now commence opening the service tower doors. 519 00:37:42,479 --> 00:37:45,107 Opening service tower doors. 520 00:38:03,133 --> 00:38:06,364 The Uchinoura Space Center reports... 521 00:38:06,470 --> 00:38:08,870 ...that it will proceed... 522 00:38:08,973 --> 00:38:14,138 ...with its planned launch of an M-5 rocket at 13:30 hours today. 523 00:38:14,511 --> 00:38:19,710 Launch sequence began at 01:30 hours and is continuing normally. 524 00:38:20,484 --> 00:38:21,473 All right? 525 00:38:25,155 --> 00:38:29,023 This is Mr Yabuki, from the Ministry. 526 00:38:29,827 --> 00:38:31,658 I'm Kawabuchi. 527 00:38:32,329 --> 00:38:33,318 Hello. 528 00:38:33,964 --> 00:38:36,159 It has been very hard... 529 00:38:37,001 --> 00:38:40,732 ...to keep funding a project like this whose results few will understand. 530 00:38:41,572 --> 00:38:43,301 Please make this work! 531 00:38:46,744 --> 00:38:50,009 Controller, could we have the final go/no go? 532 00:38:58,355 --> 00:38:59,344 We are 'go'. 533 00:39:00,357 --> 00:39:02,257 Activating all systems. 534 00:39:02,693 --> 00:39:05,355 36, 35, 34... 535 00:39:05,663 --> 00:39:09,827 ...33, 32, 31, 30... 536 00:39:28,652 --> 00:39:32,383 10, 9, 8, 7... 537 00:39:32,723 --> 00:39:35,385 ...6, 5, 4... 538 00:39:35,726 --> 00:39:38,388 ...3, 2, 1... 539 00:39:56,847 --> 00:39:59,441 Look at it go! 540 00:40:10,594 --> 00:40:16,430 'Come home!' 541 00:41:18,729 --> 00:41:20,720 Do we have separation? 542 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:24,194 Thank you. 543 00:42:13,217 --> 00:42:15,811 MUSES-C has achieved transfer orbit. 544 00:42:23,594 --> 00:42:26,392 We made it! Transfer orbit! 545 00:42:27,231 --> 00:42:28,493 Now it starts! 546 00:42:29,266 --> 00:42:31,962 So it's really gone... 547 00:42:32,236 --> 00:42:34,466 I hope we didn't forget anything. 548 00:42:34,771 --> 00:42:36,671 Bite your tongue! 549 00:42:36,773 --> 00:42:38,468 We did the capsule. 550 00:42:38,575 --> 00:42:41,009 Get it back to Earth, so we can do our job. 551 00:42:43,413 --> 00:42:44,971 Great! 552 00:42:49,653 --> 00:42:52,816 One month later 553 00:43:07,371 --> 00:43:09,601 My name's 'Hayabusa '. 554 00:43:11,508 --> 00:43:14,204 On May 9th, 2003... 555 00:43:15,279 --> 00:43:19,773 ...I left the Uchinoura Space Center on an M-Vrocket. 556 00:43:24,288 --> 00:43:27,621 I've passed all my in-flight tests... 557 00:43:27,991 --> 00:43:32,655 ...and today my ion engine will start up at last. 558 00:43:34,631 --> 00:43:37,464 Do you see that? 559 00:43:44,875 --> 00:43:47,969 Everyone has great hopes for me. 560 00:43:49,212 --> 00:43:50,474 Be patient. 561 00:43:50,681 --> 00:43:56,142 I promise I'll deliver all your 880,000 names. 562 00:44:01,325 --> 00:44:02,349 Summer 2003 563 00:44:02,492 --> 00:44:04,187 Calling Usuda Center. 564 00:44:04,561 --> 00:44:06,051 This is Usuda. 565 00:44:06,163 --> 00:44:09,599 Commencing Hayabusa operation from Sagamihara. 566 00:44:09,833 --> 00:44:14,395 Operators today are Hirayama and Mizusawa. 567 00:44:14,538 --> 00:44:16,733 Roger. Standing by. 568 00:44:17,174 --> 00:44:19,233 Signal acquisition. Remote? 569 00:44:19,343 --> 00:44:20,275 OK. 570 00:44:20,377 --> 00:44:21,366 Satellite control? 571 00:44:22,012 --> 00:44:23,001 QL data? 572 00:44:23,513 --> 00:44:24,502 Ion engines? 573 00:44:26,183 --> 00:44:27,707 Calling Usuda. 574 00:44:27,851 --> 00:44:29,512 This is Usuda. 575 00:44:29,686 --> 00:44:31,847 Weather conditions, please. 576 00:44:31,922 --> 00:44:34,015 The weather is clear... 577 00:44:34,191 --> 00:44:38,855 ...wind speed 2 meters per second, temperature 19 degrees C. 578 00:44:39,463 --> 00:44:41,863 Thank you. 579 00:44:43,633 --> 00:44:44,725 Well? 580 00:44:44,935 --> 00:44:45,924 No problems. 581 00:44:47,204 --> 00:44:49,069 Everybody... 582 00:44:49,373 --> 00:44:51,603 ...the target asteroid's been named. 583 00:44:52,376 --> 00:44:55,868 Asteroid 1998SF36 is now officially 'Itokawa'. 584 00:44:56,246 --> 00:44:58,771 So they gave it Dr Itokawa's name... 585 00:44:58,882 --> 00:45:01,544 Yes, the IAU agreed. 586 00:45:08,759 --> 00:45:10,090 9 December 2003 587 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:12,560 Six months after Hayabusa's launch... 588 00:45:12,829 --> 00:45:18,825 ...the Nozomi team, still unable to reduce the likelihood of a crash... 589 00:45:19,436 --> 00:45:22,564 ...sent its final command. 590 00:45:37,087 --> 00:45:40,488 We will now alter Nozomi's orbit. 591 00:45:42,092 --> 00:45:45,619 Initiate Mars evasion maneuver. 592 00:45:47,464 --> 00:45:48,453 Roger. 593 00:45:48,865 --> 00:45:50,025 Initiating. 594 00:45:51,034 --> 00:45:53,468 2, 1, 0. 595 00:46:08,785 --> 00:46:12,983 Now they've sent the command... 596 00:46:14,191 --> 00:46:18,127 ...Nozomi will just follow Mars around the Sun. 597 00:46:19,696 --> 00:46:23,530 Kawabuchi tried and tried, but he couldn't get below... 598 00:46:26,536 --> 00:46:29,437 ...that 1 percent crash possibility. 599 00:46:30,507 --> 00:46:33,442 In the five years since it launched... 600 00:46:34,544 --> 00:46:37,945 ...it's been one problem after another. 601 00:46:39,516 --> 00:46:44,852 Kawabuchi and the rest did all they could to save it, but... 602 00:46:49,793 --> 00:46:54,059 To all who submitted names for the 'Nozomi'project. 603 00:46:56,299 --> 00:46:58,961 Nozomi cannot be inserted... 604 00:47:00,904 --> 00:47:02,735 ...into orbit around Mars. 605 00:47:06,877 --> 00:47:08,037 Doctor... 606 00:47:10,147 --> 00:47:11,808 Oh, right! 607 00:47:12,582 --> 00:47:15,710 You submitted a name, too. 608 00:47:26,463 --> 00:47:29,899 My baby girl died last year. Please send her name to the stars. 609 00:47:33,837 --> 00:47:37,329 Alone all my life, I wish to join you all in space. 610 00:47:40,110 --> 00:47:42,408 It was my brother's name. 611 00:47:57,194 --> 00:48:00,027 Mars is so beautiful! 612 00:48:02,199 --> 00:48:04,030 I sketched it. 613 00:48:09,639 --> 00:48:12,369 The marks on it are different. 614 00:48:12,709 --> 00:48:14,870 Because it's spinning. 615 00:48:16,279 --> 00:48:19,976 You watch, Megumi. When I'm an astronomer... 616 00:48:20,450 --> 00:48:23,044 ...I'll give you a present. 617 00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:24,309 What? 618 00:48:24,387 --> 00:48:28,517 I'll discover a new star, and name it after you. 619 00:48:28,725 --> 00:48:30,556 That'd be great! 620 00:48:41,171 --> 00:48:43,799 This time we'd better not fail. 621 00:48:47,644 --> 00:48:48,702 Right. 622 00:48:52,983 --> 00:48:56,680 May 2004 623 00:48:56,753 --> 00:48:59,551 Now it's time for my swing-by. 624 00:48:59,656 --> 00:49:02,591 I've been gaining speed for a year... 625 00:49:02,692 --> 00:49:06,025 ...but now Earth's gravity will speed me up even more. 626 00:49:06,596 --> 00:49:10,930 It's going to throw me, like a discus. 627 00:49:11,201 --> 00:49:14,261 Help me out, OK? 628 00:49:14,771 --> 00:49:18,867 Engaging accelerometers X, Y, Z, and S. 629 00:49:19,276 --> 00:49:20,538 2, 1, 0. 630 00:49:21,511 --> 00:49:23,172 Signal sent. 631 00:49:30,453 --> 00:49:32,751 Send attitude parameters. 632 00:49:32,856 --> 00:49:35,882 Setting parameters. 633 00:49:36,393 --> 00:49:37,883 2, 1, 0. 634 00:49:38,461 --> 00:49:39,689 Signal sent. 635 00:49:40,196 --> 00:49:41,185 Roger. 636 00:49:41,364 --> 00:49:43,457 Send attitude change. 637 00:49:43,633 --> 00:49:47,467 Engaging attitude control. 638 00:49:48,071 --> 00:49:49,561 2, 1, 0. 639 00:49:50,974 --> 00:49:52,134 Signal sent. 640 00:50:00,083 --> 00:50:05,487 Attitude monitor and reaction control systems ready. 641 00:50:06,456 --> 00:50:07,787 Set time line. 642 00:50:07,891 --> 00:50:08,880 Roger. 643 00:50:41,191 --> 00:50:45,525 Earth's gravity has sped me up to 34 kilometers a second! 644 00:50:49,499 --> 00:50:50,932 Orbit values! 645 00:50:51,201 --> 00:50:54,364 B plane, not even a kilometer off! 646 00:50:55,305 --> 00:50:56,294 Good. 647 00:51:02,379 --> 00:51:05,212 Three of our objectives met. 648 00:51:05,715 --> 00:51:07,273 Just five more to go. 649 00:51:09,686 --> 00:51:11,881 Oh, hello! 650 00:51:29,072 --> 00:51:30,164 Good night! 651 00:51:36,579 --> 00:51:37,671 That's hard work. 652 00:51:38,148 --> 00:51:39,137 No. 653 00:51:46,222 --> 00:51:49,589 Doctoral Thesis: Low-Velocity Particle Analysis 654 00:52:14,284 --> 00:52:16,184 Thesis 655 00:52:55,725 --> 00:52:56,783 12 September 2005 656 00:52:56,893 --> 00:52:59,987 28 months after leaving Earth... 657 00:53:01,831 --> 00:53:04,959 ...I have arrived at Itokawa... 658 00:53:05,101 --> 00:53:07,501 ...my long-awaited goal. 659 00:53:13,910 --> 00:53:17,243 I've stopped 20km away. 660 00:53:30,126 --> 00:53:31,684 What's that?! 661 00:53:44,841 --> 00:53:48,140 It's 540 meters long... 662 00:53:48,411 --> 00:53:51,574 ...floating there like a sea otter. 663 00:54:00,723 --> 00:54:04,819 Right! Now I'll take a whole bunch of pictures. 664 00:54:09,899 --> 00:54:12,527 That's one weird-looking asteroid. 665 00:54:12,735 --> 00:54:13,724 It sure is. 666 00:54:13,903 --> 00:54:17,669 And we're the first people who've ever seen it. 667 00:54:17,740 --> 00:54:19,230 I'm going to cry! 668 00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:25,206 Hey! 669 00:54:29,619 --> 00:54:32,417 There's hardly any craters. 670 00:54:32,789 --> 00:54:36,225 Avalanche-type boulder piles. 671 00:54:36,359 --> 00:54:40,420 We've never seen anything like this before. 672 00:54:42,865 --> 00:54:47,199 Could it be a number of rocks? A rubble pile? 673 00:55:10,627 --> 00:55:11,958 Read this, Grandpa! 674 00:55:12,495 --> 00:55:13,621 All right. 675 00:55:15,064 --> 00:55:19,967 'Composite photographs of Itokawa taken by Hayabusa.' 676 00:55:20,136 --> 00:55:21,262 Isn't that something! 677 00:55:21,337 --> 00:55:22,599 Keep going! 678 00:55:23,439 --> 00:55:25,134 That's Itokawa? 679 00:55:25,308 --> 00:55:26,969 Isn't that great! 680 00:55:27,143 --> 00:55:28,303 A peanut. 681 00:55:28,745 --> 00:55:30,645 No, a sea otter. 682 00:55:31,681 --> 00:55:34,673 'The word's first sample return'... 683 00:55:34,984 --> 00:55:37,680 Yeah, only 30 years after Apollo! 684 00:55:39,088 --> 00:55:43,787 'This would be the first sample taken from an object in orbit... 685 00:55:44,460 --> 00:55:46,985 '...around the Sun.' 686 00:55:49,465 --> 00:55:51,456 So we beat NASA to something? 687 00:55:54,337 --> 00:55:55,429 Hurray! 688 00:55:55,505 --> 00:55:56,529 Stop it! 689 00:55:57,840 --> 00:55:58,829 Don't! 690 00:55:58,941 --> 00:56:00,135 Keep it down! 691 00:56:12,355 --> 00:56:17,019 Mizusawa! Why are you doing astronomy, anyway? 692 00:56:17,527 --> 00:56:22,555 I've always liked looking at stars, so I wanted to be... 693 00:56:23,232 --> 00:56:24,358 ...a scientist. 694 00:56:25,334 --> 00:56:28,201 Was that your own idea... 695 00:56:30,006 --> 00:56:30,995 ...or... 696 00:56:33,142 --> 00:56:36,043 ...was it your brother's? 697 00:56:39,716 --> 00:56:41,809 Dr Matoba told me. 698 00:56:42,151 --> 00:56:46,554 It's too bad his name didn't make it to Mars. 699 00:56:48,057 --> 00:56:49,388 Sensei! 700 00:56:50,359 --> 00:56:51,587 Watch it! 701 00:56:54,530 --> 00:56:59,763 You guessed it was a rubble pile. Your instincts are good. 702 00:57:00,503 --> 00:57:01,561 Get to work. 703 00:57:02,405 --> 00:57:05,704 To be an academic, you need to finish a thesis. 704 00:57:05,875 --> 00:57:09,072 Keep that in mind. 705 00:57:18,688 --> 00:57:21,122 We're doing three cheers! 706 00:57:36,773 --> 00:57:38,968 Where do we touch down? 707 00:57:46,616 --> 00:57:48,607 Start touchdown rehearsal. 708 00:57:49,619 --> 00:57:50,745 4 November 2005 709 00:57:50,820 --> 00:57:52,583 Overwriting data recorder. 710 00:57:52,955 --> 00:57:54,217 2, 1, 0. 711 00:57:55,458 --> 00:57:56,550 Signal sent. 712 00:58:00,997 --> 00:58:04,990 Seen up close, Itokawa is all rocks! 713 00:58:05,134 --> 00:58:08,467 We didn't expect this. 714 00:58:08,938 --> 00:58:11,634 Touching down will take courage. 715 00:58:13,142 --> 00:58:16,475 I wonder if they can set me down right... 716 00:58:19,649 --> 00:58:22,982 Ready to enable LIDAR update. 717 00:58:23,820 --> 00:58:25,481 Sending. 718 00:58:25,988 --> 00:58:27,319 2, 1, 0. 719 00:58:28,491 --> 00:58:29,651 Signal sent. 720 00:58:33,796 --> 00:58:37,357 Sending Delta-V uplink 0X-1800. 721 00:58:38,334 --> 00:58:39,494 2, 1, 0. 722 00:58:39,969 --> 00:58:43,336 Sending descent guide suspend signal. 723 00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:45,364 2, 1, 0. 724 00:58:50,346 --> 00:58:51,335 Trouble? 725 00:58:51,447 --> 00:58:53,972 The attitude's unstable. 726 00:58:54,050 --> 00:58:58,384 We're only getting numbers from the Z Reaction Wheel. 727 00:58:59,856 --> 00:59:02,347 Something might be wrong. 728 00:59:04,994 --> 00:59:07,519 Something is wrong. 729 00:59:08,064 --> 00:59:12,626 I've got three flywheels to keep me level... 730 00:59:12,835 --> 00:59:16,202 ...but two of them have broken on the way here. 731 00:59:19,675 --> 00:59:21,802 Ready retro-thrusters. 732 00:59:21,978 --> 00:59:22,967 Right. 733 00:59:23,579 --> 00:59:24,910 At this rate... 734 00:59:25,181 --> 00:59:29,140 ...it'll touch down about 5:30, so we've got till about 5 pm... 735 00:59:29,352 --> 00:59:31,320 ...to send a command. 736 00:59:36,192 --> 00:59:39,252 'I want to go off alone... 737 00:59:41,430 --> 00:59:44,695 '...and eat ramen.' 738 00:59:47,103 --> 00:59:52,405 'We will be uploading news on Hayabusa as it happens.' 739 00:59:53,042 --> 00:59:55,010 So they're the ones... 740 00:59:55,111 --> 00:59:59,741 ...trying to lead the world in interplanetary exploration technology. 741 01:00:02,418 --> 01:00:06,582 The hovering engines cut at T minus 5. 742 01:00:06,923 --> 01:00:08,515 Then it drops by itself. 743 01:00:08,858 --> 01:00:12,726 By 40 meters up, switch from LIDAR to Laser Range Finder. 744 01:00:12,895 --> 01:00:15,762 Cut attitude-control mode before 20 meters. 745 01:00:15,932 --> 01:00:18,958 Keep the antenna pointed at Earth. 746 01:00:23,072 --> 01:00:29,102 Right now I've got 12 little rockets controlling my speed and direction... 747 01:00:29,612 --> 01:00:33,104 ...but they're hard to control. 748 01:00:33,916 --> 01:00:35,781 They take practice. 749 01:01:06,749 --> 01:01:11,448 If we correct all the way to here, we just might be OK... 750 01:01:11,587 --> 01:01:12,918 It'll be close. 751 01:01:26,936 --> 01:01:28,028 20 November 752 01:01:28,137 --> 01:01:29,798 Go Hayabusa! 753 01:01:47,023 --> 01:01:48,354 This is it! 754 01:02:35,738 --> 01:02:37,171 Altitude 500 meters. 755 01:02:37,706 --> 01:02:38,900 Doctor? 756 01:02:39,542 --> 01:02:41,009 Continue descent. 757 01:02:41,243 --> 01:02:43,768 Sending descent command 0055. 758 01:02:44,046 --> 01:02:46,844 Sending descent command. 759 01:02:47,416 --> 01:02:48,576 2, 1, 0. 760 01:02:50,352 --> 01:02:51,614 Signal sent. 761 01:03:03,766 --> 01:03:05,427 40 meters! 762 01:03:06,268 --> 01:03:07,599 Marker separated. 763 01:03:33,095 --> 01:03:35,120 Cut acceleration. 764 01:03:35,464 --> 01:03:36,692 Reduce speed. 765 01:03:37,399 --> 01:03:38,627 Confirming 07. 766 01:03:38,801 --> 01:03:40,291 Wait for speed to drop. 767 01:03:40,469 --> 01:03:42,266 Moving to Control 2. 768 01:04:03,592 --> 01:04:06,288 What's that black stuff there? 769 01:04:06,495 --> 01:04:07,621 Zoom in! 770 01:04:12,835 --> 01:04:13,802 Hayabusa! 771 01:04:13,903 --> 01:04:15,063 The marker! 772 01:04:18,340 --> 01:04:20,331 We can see Hayabusa! 773 01:04:20,476 --> 01:04:21,636 It's there! 774 01:04:21,844 --> 01:04:23,607 Of course it is! 775 01:04:26,315 --> 01:04:30,445 Doctor! The names made it! 776 01:04:35,424 --> 01:04:36,914 Speed data? 777 01:04:37,092 --> 01:04:38,081 Soon. 778 01:04:40,429 --> 01:04:42,329 We're in final phase. 779 01:04:49,038 --> 01:04:50,528 17 meters... 780 01:04:54,143 --> 01:04:55,371 10 meters... 781 01:05:00,115 --> 01:05:01,446 Seven... 782 01:05:03,519 --> 01:05:04,850 Six... 783 01:05:06,689 --> 01:05:07,815 Five... 784 01:05:09,692 --> 01:05:10,818 Four... 785 01:05:14,029 --> 01:05:15,291 Three... 786 01:05:17,032 --> 01:05:18,294 Two... 787 01:05:20,035 --> 01:05:21,400 One... 788 01:05:25,241 --> 01:05:26,230 Zero. 789 01:05:33,148 --> 01:05:34,740 Minus-one. 790 01:05:39,088 --> 01:05:41,249 It's continuing to descend. 791 01:05:46,996 --> 01:05:48,395 Minus-two. 792 01:05:49,698 --> 01:05:50,722 Why? 793 01:05:50,933 --> 01:05:53,731 Is it sinking in soft terrain? 794 01:05:53,836 --> 01:05:57,431 Then it wouldn't be sending any data. 795 01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:02,706 Sliding sideways on the surface? Is that possible? 796 01:06:02,911 --> 01:06:04,503 Tajima? 797 01:06:09,518 --> 01:06:12,578 Let me think about it. 798 01:06:16,091 --> 01:06:20,687 Press Room 799 01:07:15,250 --> 01:07:18,651 We have to get it off the surface! It's too hot for it there. 800 01:07:18,754 --> 01:07:20,585 It's still sending data. 801 01:07:20,656 --> 01:07:23,124 Let's take a minute and think. 802 01:07:23,192 --> 01:07:27,458 That data's 17 minutes old. We could lose the probe! 803 01:07:36,372 --> 01:07:37,339 Tajima... 804 01:07:37,439 --> 01:07:39,134 ...fire the thrusters. 805 01:07:59,061 --> 01:08:00,528 It's lifted off. 806 01:08:04,500 --> 01:08:07,992 Put it in safe-hold mode. 807 01:08:10,572 --> 01:08:14,372 They told me to leave ltokawa, so I did. 808 01:08:14,910 --> 01:08:17,470 What happened? 809 01:08:17,546 --> 01:08:19,411 I don't know. 810 01:08:25,387 --> 01:08:28,720 'The asteroid's surface is too hot for the observation equipment.' 811 01:08:29,158 --> 01:08:30,250 Good call! 812 01:08:32,895 --> 01:08:37,559 We know we can land it, so there's no need to risk that again. 813 01:08:37,666 --> 01:08:39,566 We could wreck it. 814 01:08:39,768 --> 01:08:43,499 The engineering mission involves bringing it back, too. 815 01:08:43,605 --> 01:08:46,938 Yes, but we went there to get a sample. 816 01:08:47,042 --> 01:08:49,875 What happens to 20 years of everyone's work... 817 01:08:50,078 --> 01:08:52,444 ...if we come back without one? 818 01:08:52,781 --> 01:08:56,774 A sample won't mean anything if it doesn't get back here. 819 01:09:08,464 --> 01:09:11,058 So will they touch down again? 820 01:09:37,960 --> 01:09:38,949 Doctor! 821 01:09:39,595 --> 01:09:42,587 Going down again could be fatal! 822 01:09:42,664 --> 01:09:45,258 Yes, he knows that. 823 01:09:45,334 --> 01:09:48,497 It's the engineering part that's important. 824 01:09:48,670 --> 01:09:52,470 They're concentrating too much on the science side. 825 01:09:52,574 --> 01:09:54,838 Yes, Takaoka. 826 01:09:57,980 --> 01:10:01,848 We do whatever Dr Kawabuchi decides. 827 01:10:25,207 --> 01:10:29,007 Confirm orbit correction for second touchdown. 828 01:10:38,987 --> 01:10:41,922 We're touching down again. 829 01:10:46,361 --> 01:10:47,350 Hello. 830 01:10:50,866 --> 01:10:53,858 I'm sorry to have kept you all waiting. 831 01:10:54,136 --> 01:10:57,037 Today at 22:00 hours... 832 01:10:58,140 --> 01:11:01,109 ...we will commence descent procedures... 833 01:11:01,443 --> 01:11:04,105 ...from one kilometer above the surface... 834 01:11:04,446 --> 01:11:07,472 ...for a second touchdown. 835 01:11:08,450 --> 01:11:11,112 Has the craft been damaged? 836 01:11:11,887 --> 01:11:13,684 Are you changing the site? 837 01:11:13,789 --> 01:11:16,952 One question at a time, please. 838 01:11:17,125 --> 01:11:18,683 Is there damage? 839 01:11:18,794 --> 01:11:20,455 None has been confirmed. 840 01:11:20,662 --> 01:11:22,687 The craft is under our control. 841 01:11:22,798 --> 01:11:23,787 And the site? 842 01:11:23,865 --> 01:11:27,961 There is no change. We will try at the same site. 843 01:11:28,136 --> 01:11:30,229 What corrections have you made? 844 01:11:30,372 --> 01:11:32,704 Can you re-insert the target marker? 845 01:11:33,208 --> 01:11:36,473 25 November 2005 846 01:11:36,545 --> 01:11:40,037 21 :25 hours. Continuing descent. 847 01:11:40,182 --> 01:11:43,379 Switching altimeter to Laser Range Finder. 848 01:11:48,924 --> 01:11:53,554 22:00 hours. Holding at 17 meters altitude. 849 01:11:57,666 --> 01:12:00,191 Switch attitude-control modes. 850 01:12:02,237 --> 01:12:03,226 Done. 851 01:12:09,244 --> 01:12:11,075 The finder's gone S2. 852 01:12:15,751 --> 01:12:17,048 Here we go... 853 01:12:33,135 --> 01:12:34,397 It's going down! 854 01:12:36,204 --> 01:12:40,800 Look for the green WCT. It'll come on at touchdown. 855 01:12:41,243 --> 01:12:45,373 It means our commands have reached the sampler and everything else. 856 01:13:28,623 --> 01:13:29,920 There! 857 01:13:52,948 --> 01:13:54,506 They did it! 858 01:14:02,057 --> 01:14:03,786 Yes! WCT! 859 01:14:04,126 --> 01:14:06,526 'Whole Image Center Tracking'! 860 01:14:06,695 --> 01:14:09,459 JAXA finally gets one on NASA! 861 01:14:20,675 --> 01:14:23,143 Wait! Let's confirm our status. 862 01:14:34,656 --> 01:14:35,645 Thrusters? 863 01:14:37,025 --> 01:14:40,188 It looks like we're leaking propellant. 864 01:14:40,996 --> 01:14:42,395 Nagashima? 865 01:14:43,198 --> 01:14:44,927 It won't stabilize. 866 01:14:45,433 --> 01:14:46,422 Hirayama? 867 01:14:46,868 --> 01:14:49,393 The temperature's dropping. 868 01:14:49,504 --> 01:14:51,495 Voltage is falling as well. 869 01:14:56,044 --> 01:14:58,171 We'll lose contact. 870 01:15:05,587 --> 01:15:09,683 Once that happens, it's lost and we're finished. 871 01:15:12,594 --> 01:15:16,291 Do everything you can to stop that leak. 872 01:15:24,773 --> 01:15:26,707 What's the spin down to? 873 01:15:27,108 --> 01:15:29,372 2.347 degrees per second. 874 01:15:31,580 --> 01:15:34,048 The leak is slowing its spin rate. 875 01:15:34,316 --> 01:15:37,080 We need thrusters to bring it up. 876 01:15:37,719 --> 01:15:41,382 The probe's going to die out there. 877 01:15:57,138 --> 01:15:58,264 Residents Committee 878 01:15:58,340 --> 01:16:03,505 Turning to the matter of dog and cat noise and excrement... 879 01:16:05,347 --> 01:16:06,336 Excuse me. 880 01:16:08,950 --> 01:16:13,250 We need to turn on the ion drive. Get in here! 881 01:16:16,591 --> 01:16:18,456 I'm sorry... 882 01:16:18,593 --> 01:16:22,689 ...but something's come up. You'll have to excuse me. 883 01:16:23,598 --> 01:16:26,362 Mr Tanaka, could you take over? 884 01:16:26,601 --> 01:16:28,762 Something in space? 885 01:16:29,537 --> 01:16:31,095 Yes. I'm sorry. 886 01:16:35,677 --> 01:16:40,671 The only data we're getting now is from the medium-gain antenna. 887 01:16:41,116 --> 01:16:45,780 Our one remaining reaction wheel can't absorb the angular momentum. 888 01:16:46,554 --> 01:16:48,613 Our only hope... 889 01:16:48,690 --> 01:16:52,387 ...is to control the attitude by ion jet. 890 01:16:53,695 --> 01:16:54,957 Fire the ion jets?! 891 01:16:55,797 --> 01:16:59,233 The main engines are the only way to stabilize. 892 01:16:59,334 --> 01:17:04,294 But it's in take-off mode now. You could wreck them! 893 01:17:04,506 --> 01:17:09,375 It'll take a lot of power to stabilize, and you'll burn up all the fuel! 894 01:17:09,511 --> 01:17:12,844 There won't be enough to get back! 895 01:17:12,981 --> 01:17:15,677 Right now it won't get back anyway. 896 01:17:16,184 --> 01:17:18,243 First off, the ion engines... 897 01:17:18,386 --> 01:17:21,378 ...aren't placed to change attitude. 898 01:17:21,489 --> 01:17:23,354 You know that! 899 01:17:28,897 --> 01:17:32,993 If the main engines can't thrust, why not try from somewhere else? 900 01:17:33,101 --> 01:17:34,432 Somewhere else? 901 01:17:35,036 --> 01:17:37,527 The thrusters are dead! 902 01:17:45,447 --> 01:17:48,007 What about the neutralizers? 903 01:17:48,116 --> 01:17:52,382 That would give us some power and use less fuel. 904 01:18:00,261 --> 01:18:02,252 Let's try that. 905 01:18:18,546 --> 01:18:23,210 I'm regaining my balance by firing gas through my neutralizers. 906 01:18:24,886 --> 01:18:31,086 That command surprised me. It's hard work for tiny neutralizers. 907 01:18:35,964 --> 01:18:38,592 But I'm turned the right way. 908 01:18:40,869 --> 01:18:43,531 Now it's easier to communicate. 909 01:18:48,443 --> 01:18:49,569 But... 910 01:19:04,225 --> 01:19:07,422 We are unable to confirm... 911 01:19:07,796 --> 01:19:12,096 ...that we actually picked up any material from Itokawa. 912 01:19:13,234 --> 01:19:17,261 While the command to fire the pellet was given... 913 01:19:17,405 --> 01:19:20,966 ...we believe there is an 80 percent chance... 914 01:19:21,109 --> 01:19:24,510 ...that the pellet was not fired. 915 01:19:24,679 --> 01:19:26,271 What happened? 916 01:19:26,681 --> 01:19:29,241 We have not established that. 917 01:19:33,521 --> 01:19:36,183 I'm all battered and bruised. 918 01:19:36,458 --> 01:19:39,450 But I'm trying to get back somehow. 919 01:19:40,462 --> 01:19:44,922 I'm trying my best to live up to everybody's hopes... 920 01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:56,599 I can't get the communications link back... 921 01:19:59,447 --> 01:20:01,608 This isn't good! 922 01:20:03,785 --> 01:20:04,774 Huh? 923 01:20:04,886 --> 01:20:05,875 Huh?! 924 01:20:06,287 --> 01:20:07,777 I'm spinning! 925 01:20:20,468 --> 01:20:26,338 If I'm not facing the Sun, I can't recharge my batteries! 926 01:20:29,978 --> 01:20:33,141 If it goes off, we lose contact. 927 01:20:33,348 --> 01:20:34,747 The craft will be... 928 01:20:35,250 --> 01:20:36,239 ...lost! 929 01:20:36,351 --> 01:20:37,579 Lost?! 930 01:21:00,508 --> 01:21:01,873 Here I am. 931 01:21:13,288 --> 01:21:16,746 I'm here... 932 01:21:20,862 --> 01:21:22,887 ...control has been lost... 933 01:21:23,398 --> 01:21:27,061 They're having problems, aren't they. 934 01:21:28,970 --> 01:21:31,131 I guess that's it, huh? 935 01:21:32,273 --> 01:21:33,740 It'll be fine! 936 01:21:51,426 --> 01:21:53,394 'Hey, are you lost?' 937 01:22:11,613 --> 01:22:13,843 Where are you, anyway? 938 01:22:25,593 --> 01:22:28,084 Excuse me... 939 01:22:31,499 --> 01:22:33,490 Help yourselves. 940 01:22:37,472 --> 01:22:39,167 Return to Earth... 941 01:22:39,307 --> 01:22:44,040 ...by the planned date of 2007 is no longer possible. 942 01:22:44,212 --> 01:22:48,273 We are now aiming for three years later, in June 2010. 943 01:22:53,388 --> 01:22:55,948 This is our third week of no contact. 944 01:22:56,624 --> 01:23:00,788 I want you all to think about our best course of action. 945 01:23:00,862 --> 01:23:03,729 Find something we could still try. 946 01:23:11,239 --> 01:23:14,140 Information 947 01:23:26,587 --> 01:23:28,748 Ask me anything 948 01:23:49,577 --> 01:23:51,067 Did you find Hayabusa? 949 01:23:51,179 --> 01:23:52,168 No? 950 01:23:52,246 --> 01:23:53,611 Can't you signal him? 951 01:23:57,552 --> 01:23:59,213 Good question! 952 01:24:04,125 --> 01:24:08,118 A signal goes like waves when the water is disturbed. 953 01:24:08,730 --> 01:24:13,064 There are different kinds of waves, some long and slow... 954 01:24:13,201 --> 01:24:15,260 ...and some small and short. 955 01:24:15,403 --> 01:24:17,701 That's called their 'frequency'. 956 01:24:18,239 --> 01:24:20,867 But Hayabusa got broken... 957 01:24:21,242 --> 01:24:25,542 ...so we don't know what frequency... 958 01:24:25,713 --> 01:24:29,046 ...our waves will reach him on. 959 01:24:29,150 --> 01:24:32,813 And even if he answers us, we don't know... 960 01:24:32,954 --> 01:24:35,787 ...the frequency he'll use. 961 01:24:35,923 --> 01:24:41,452 It's like tuning a radio. We have to try different frequencies. 962 01:24:43,931 --> 01:24:45,125 No? 963 01:24:46,434 --> 01:24:49,403 It's really hard. It's like looking for... 964 01:24:49,904 --> 01:24:55,274 ...one single grain of sand in your whole school playground. 965 01:24:56,511 --> 01:24:58,001 I understand. 966 01:24:59,147 --> 01:25:01,240 I hope you find him soon. 967 01:25:02,583 --> 01:25:03,948 Thank you. 968 01:25:04,152 --> 01:25:05,141 Bye. 969 01:25:36,751 --> 01:25:40,983 So we can drop Hayabusa from the budget next year? 970 01:25:42,723 --> 01:25:46,750 We are still continuing with the search. 971 01:25:46,861 --> 01:25:53,528 They've never found a probe that's been lost this long, though. 972 01:25:56,537 --> 01:26:00,405 I have to hand it to you, Mr Yabuki. You've done your research. 973 01:26:01,342 --> 01:26:05,244 But Hayabusa... 974 01:26:07,014 --> 01:26:11,417 ...is a little different from conventional space probes. 975 01:26:12,620 --> 01:26:16,386 Hayabusa is tumbling like this... 976 01:26:16,591 --> 01:26:19,287 ...in a tailspin... 977 01:26:19,427 --> 01:26:25,297 ...but its rotational inertia is calculated in such a way... 978 01:26:25,433 --> 01:26:27,867 ...that it stays stable on its axis. 979 01:26:27,969 --> 01:26:33,373 If we can stabilize the angle so the Sun shines on its panels... 980 01:26:33,541 --> 01:26:37,272 ...eventually we can re-establish communication. 981 01:26:37,812 --> 01:26:42,146 And when is 'eventually'? 982 01:26:43,417 --> 01:26:44,406 Oh... 983 01:26:45,453 --> 01:26:47,614 ...a year or so? 984 01:27:04,839 --> 01:27:05,828 Yes? 985 01:27:06,007 --> 01:27:07,304 It's Mizusawa. 986 01:27:07,408 --> 01:27:08,636 Come in. 987 01:27:13,114 --> 01:27:16,106 I saw your light on. 988 01:27:16,684 --> 01:27:20,176 Could you verify that this data fits the formulas... 989 01:27:20,288 --> 01:27:22,518 ...and make me ten copies? 990 01:27:22,924 --> 01:27:23,913 Sorry? 991 01:27:23,991 --> 01:27:25,925 It's estimates of our chances. 992 01:27:32,133 --> 01:27:33,122 Doctor! 993 01:27:48,049 --> 01:27:49,346 Doctor... 994 01:27:50,518 --> 01:27:54,284 ...do you ever think that calculations without firm data... 995 01:27:54,388 --> 01:27:57,186 ...are a waste of time? 996 01:28:01,228 --> 01:28:07,565 It hurt when I couldn't get below a 1 percent chance Nozomi would crash. 997 01:28:08,202 --> 01:28:12,639 No matter how I juggled the orbit, I was always just a bit over. 998 01:28:12,807 --> 01:28:16,299 We had to use the thrusters. We were flying blind. 999 01:28:16,577 --> 01:28:20,308 There was no time to worry that nothing was firm. 1000 01:28:20,414 --> 01:28:21,904 We just kept trying. 1001 01:28:31,359 --> 01:28:32,519 Thank you. 1002 01:28:33,094 --> 01:28:34,755 You're a great help. 1003 01:28:37,999 --> 01:28:39,364 You work hard. 1004 01:28:41,168 --> 01:28:44,763 By the way, how's your thesis coming? 1005 01:28:47,942 --> 01:28:49,432 Excuse me. 1006 01:29:21,275 --> 01:29:22,742 Oh no! 1007 01:29:44,899 --> 01:29:50,496 We'll rewrite the control software so we can send it in small bits. 1008 01:29:50,671 --> 01:29:55,836 Then even as Hayabusa spins, it can pick up one command. 1009 01:29:56,010 --> 01:30:00,106 Keep changing frequencies, and do wide sweeps. 1010 01:30:00,414 --> 01:30:02,245 Doing that for a year... 1011 01:30:02,416 --> 01:30:06,682 ...gives us a 60 percent chance of re-establishing contact. 1012 01:30:16,030 --> 01:30:17,122 Thank you. 1013 01:30:23,437 --> 01:30:24,665 That went well. 1014 01:30:25,873 --> 01:30:29,036 I'm most afraid they'll defund us at year-end. 1015 01:30:29,376 --> 01:30:31,037 Then it's all over. 1016 01:30:32,379 --> 01:30:35,177 Showing people figures is good for morale. 1017 01:30:36,684 --> 01:30:38,675 What do you really think? 1018 01:30:41,956 --> 01:30:45,517 Figures depend on how you calculate them. 1019 01:30:49,930 --> 01:30:53,229 1 January 2006 1020 01:30:54,235 --> 01:31:00,105 The year ended with us still out of touch with Hayabusa. 1021 01:31:00,508 --> 01:31:06,242 From Sagamihara we sent it more than 15,000 commands... 1022 01:31:06,447 --> 01:31:08,574 ...over six weeks. 1023 01:31:09,116 --> 01:31:12,381 23 January 1024 01:31:25,099 --> 01:31:31,937 Another day with no response. How long do we keep trying? 1025 01:31:42,550 --> 01:31:45,417 Hey, wait a minute... 1026 01:31:51,425 --> 01:31:54,724 That's Hayabusa. I'm sure of it. 1027 01:32:01,302 --> 01:32:06,797 Just as the solar panels faced the Sun and the antennas pointed to Earth! 1028 01:32:08,342 --> 01:32:09,969 Calling Usuda... 1029 01:32:10,177 --> 01:32:11,610 Usuda here. 1030 01:32:11,745 --> 01:32:15,272 Thank you. It's confirmed as Hayabusa. 1031 01:32:15,349 --> 01:32:17,783 Continue tracking. 1032 01:32:19,353 --> 01:32:22,322 Way to go Hayabusa! 1033 01:32:22,957 --> 01:32:25,653 I'll bet that gave you a scare. 1034 01:32:26,126 --> 01:32:30,620 But it's not over till it's over, Hayabusa! 1035 01:32:31,098 --> 01:32:33,692 Your job is to get home! 1036 01:32:34,201 --> 01:32:36,192 It's receiving signals! 1037 01:32:40,307 --> 01:32:43,140 How much is it receiving now? 1038 01:32:43,444 --> 01:32:45,036 I can't say... 1039 01:32:45,179 --> 01:32:48,012 ...but enough to maintain temperature. 1040 01:32:48,148 --> 01:32:50,981 We can examine the probe with one-bit transmission. 1041 01:32:51,352 --> 01:32:53,684 How's the ion engine fuel supply? 1042 01:32:53,854 --> 01:32:56,015 There's 42 kilograms of xenon left. 1043 01:32:56,290 --> 01:32:58,986 It should use 9 kilos a month. 1044 01:32:59,159 --> 01:33:02,526 We can point its axis toward Earth with the gas jets. 1045 01:33:02,663 --> 01:33:04,722 How's telemetry reception? 1046 01:33:05,032 --> 01:33:07,694 It's low, but we can manage. 1047 01:33:16,877 --> 01:33:20,904 I'm fine, everyone. And I'm facing the Sun at last. 1048 01:33:24,318 --> 01:33:26,047 'I've got... 1049 01:33:26,320 --> 01:33:31,724 '...bruises all over but that won't stop me.' 1050 01:33:33,027 --> 01:33:37,054 It's time to move the sample container into its capsule. 1051 01:33:37,197 --> 01:33:42,567 They'll have to charge me carefully since four of my batteries don't work. 1052 01:34:02,022 --> 01:34:03,580 Charging complete. 1053 01:34:07,294 --> 01:34:10,058 The sample container's in the capsule. 1054 01:34:13,934 --> 01:34:17,370 It's time to turn on an ion engine again. 1055 01:34:31,585 --> 01:34:35,043 What?! What are you talking about? 1056 01:34:35,956 --> 01:34:39,756 A contract is a contract. I'm the one who signed it. 1057 01:34:40,394 --> 01:34:41,759 That's crazy! 1058 01:34:43,764 --> 01:34:48,167 'Your contract's over so don't come in any more'? 1059 01:34:53,407 --> 01:34:57,241 You can't see it through to the end. That's horrible! 1060 01:35:02,616 --> 01:35:06,108 Especially when we can't even see the end. 1061 01:35:10,090 --> 01:35:12,149 Why am I doing this? 1062 01:35:16,663 --> 01:35:22,363 If not seeing the end bothers you, don't become a scientist. 1063 01:35:23,137 --> 01:35:28,131 The fact is that most scientists don't see it through to the end. 1064 01:35:29,476 --> 01:35:33,435 Mizusawa! Why are you doing astronomy, anyway? 1065 01:35:39,453 --> 01:35:42,479 We're all temporary staff. 1066 01:35:43,057 --> 01:35:46,493 But that's a kind of profession, too. 1067 01:35:47,661 --> 01:35:49,185 Like a carpenter. 1068 01:35:49,329 --> 01:35:53,288 You finish up at one site and move on to the next. 1069 01:35:55,169 --> 01:35:56,636 We're shifuku. 1070 01:35:58,305 --> 01:35:59,567 'Blessed'? 1071 01:36:11,919 --> 01:36:13,250 Time to go. 1072 01:36:38,412 --> 01:36:43,714 'Shifuku': one who toils in obscurity 1073 01:36:48,222 --> 01:36:53,216 A few days later, Mr Sakagami left. 1074 01:36:53,560 --> 01:36:56,723 Then so did Dr Hagiwara. 1075 01:36:56,830 --> 01:37:00,163 To all of you, for all you've done. 1076 01:37:14,615 --> 01:37:15,809 Mizusawa... 1077 01:37:16,183 --> 01:37:19,744 ...I want you to stay and see Hayabusa come home. 1078 01:37:21,455 --> 01:37:24,424 I leave Hayabusa to you all. 1079 01:37:24,525 --> 01:37:27,153 And Ms Mizusawa, too. 1080 01:37:46,213 --> 01:37:47,339 Look! 1081 01:37:48,515 --> 01:37:50,483 Science magazine... 1082 01:37:50,617 --> 01:37:51,811 Finally! 1083 01:37:51,952 --> 01:37:53,715 With a letter... 1084 01:37:53,820 --> 01:37:56,812 ...saying the articles were wonderful. 1085 01:37:57,124 --> 01:37:59,149 From the Editor! 1086 01:37:59,293 --> 01:38:02,160 Mr Sakagami and Dr Hagiwara wrote things, too. 1087 01:38:02,296 --> 01:38:03,854 Next is your turn. 1088 01:38:06,833 --> 01:38:08,733 Is that Science? 1089 01:38:17,010 --> 01:38:19,308 18 October 2007 1090 01:38:19,379 --> 01:38:24,009 I've had lots of trouble, but I might just make it back. 1091 01:38:24,751 --> 01:38:26,685 Just one last push. 1092 01:38:27,321 --> 01:38:31,655 I'm turning off my ion engine to rest a bit. 1093 01:38:32,159 --> 01:38:35,356 I have to preserve my strength. 1094 01:40:00,447 --> 01:40:04,144 Spring 2008 1095 01:40:19,366 --> 01:40:23,200 I was always after Isomura... 1096 01:40:23,704 --> 01:40:28,266 ...telling him he should get married. 1097 01:40:29,609 --> 01:40:31,941 But he never would. 1098 01:40:33,146 --> 01:40:37,139 Then he finally did, and they had a child... 1099 01:40:42,222 --> 01:40:47,159 On any project there are people who won't be there... 1100 01:40:47,294 --> 01:40:49,285 ...at the end. 1101 01:40:50,697 --> 01:40:53,495 Even Dr Kawabuchi... 1102 01:40:53,633 --> 01:40:55,863 ...lost his father last year. 1103 01:41:00,006 --> 01:41:04,500 His father was the person Kawabuchi most wanted to tell... 1104 01:41:04,745 --> 01:41:07,475 ...when Hayabusa came back. 1105 01:42:16,116 --> 01:42:19,085 A Blessing from the Shrine... 1106 01:42:22,422 --> 01:42:25,448 ...of the God of Flight 1107 01:42:37,804 --> 01:42:39,669 Ms Megumi Mizusawa 1108 01:42:39,806 --> 01:42:41,671 ...your thesis... 1109 01:42:41,808 --> 01:42:43,673 ...does not meet... 1110 01:42:43,810 --> 01:42:46,608 ...our standards. 1111 01:43:08,168 --> 01:43:10,136 After 16 months, we will restart the engines. 1112 01:43:10,237 --> 01:43:11,636 4 February 2009 1113 01:43:11,738 --> 01:43:13,797 Yes! Ignition! 1114 01:43:14,140 --> 01:43:17,871 Second-leg orbit change. Engage ion engine D. 1115 01:43:18,812 --> 01:43:21,303 Starting ion thruster D. 1116 01:43:21,381 --> 01:43:23,144 2, 1, 0. 1117 01:43:23,817 --> 01:43:25,307 Signal sent. 1118 01:43:44,004 --> 01:43:46,097 4 November 1119 01:43:57,384 --> 01:43:58,681 It's stopped! 1120 01:44:09,696 --> 01:44:10,685 What's wrong?! 1121 01:44:10,764 --> 01:44:14,427 The voltage went up, and D engine shut down. 1122 01:44:14,534 --> 01:44:17,367 And only seven months to go! 1123 01:45:03,249 --> 01:45:04,580 Hello? 1124 01:45:04,918 --> 01:45:06,818 Why so glum? 1125 01:45:07,020 --> 01:45:08,920 Why wouldn't I be? 1126 01:45:09,089 --> 01:45:11,649 You don't have time for that. 1127 01:45:11,758 --> 01:45:13,191 Aw, shuddup. 1128 01:45:15,161 --> 01:45:16,992 Look behind you. 1129 01:45:17,097 --> 01:45:18,155 Why? 1130 01:45:18,264 --> 01:45:19,595 Just do it. 1131 01:45:39,619 --> 01:45:43,885 The Recovery Team's waiting with its baseball gloves on. 1132 01:45:44,124 --> 01:45:46,058 Hit it to us. 1133 01:45:48,128 --> 01:45:51,461 It's easy for you to talk! 1134 01:45:52,966 --> 01:45:55,025 We're turning on the beacon. 1135 01:45:55,702 --> 01:45:57,363 Point the antennas. 1136 01:46:16,990 --> 01:46:20,084 OK, let's do what we talked about. 1137 01:46:20,460 --> 01:46:23,657 Mizusawa Family Tomb 1138 01:46:35,175 --> 01:46:36,506 Well, Mom... 1139 01:46:37,744 --> 01:46:43,011 ...I'm close to getting what Kazuyuki wanted... 1140 01:46:45,018 --> 01:46:47,851 ...but I'm just spinning my wheels. 1141 01:46:50,824 --> 01:46:53,156 Hayabusa can't get back. 1142 01:46:53,326 --> 01:46:54,623 Megumi! 1143 01:46:55,762 --> 01:46:58,458 When are you going to grow up? 1144 01:47:00,467 --> 01:47:03,129 Why are you studying astronomy? 1145 01:47:04,771 --> 01:47:08,832 Are you trying to make Kazuyuki's dreams come true for him? 1146 01:47:10,009 --> 01:47:12,170 Because you won't. 1147 01:47:18,685 --> 01:47:22,451 If you're going to stick with something... 1148 01:47:22,522 --> 01:47:27,983 ...it's got to be because you really love it yourself. 1149 01:47:30,029 --> 01:47:31,360 Mom! 1150 01:47:32,332 --> 01:47:37,201 When you were small and Kazuyuki saw... 1151 01:47:37,337 --> 01:47:40,864 ...how you loved looking into his telescope... 1152 01:47:41,541 --> 01:47:45,136 ...he said that you'd go further than him. 1153 01:47:46,846 --> 01:47:49,542 Your dad smiled when he heard that. 1154 01:47:52,719 --> 01:47:56,052 Are you trying to become a scientist... 1155 01:47:56,389 --> 01:47:57,720 ...for Kazuyuki? 1156 01:47:58,892 --> 01:48:02,555 Or is it something you want for yourself? 1157 01:48:11,404 --> 01:48:17,673 Since D engine stopped five days ago we have been trying to restart it... 1158 01:48:17,744 --> 01:48:20,372 ...but have not succeeded. 1159 01:48:20,580 --> 01:48:25,745 Thus it will be difficult to meet our planned arrival date of June 2010. 1160 01:48:27,187 --> 01:48:29,587 So in the end it fails... 1161 01:48:44,270 --> 01:48:49,367 There's only one way I can think of. 1162 01:48:50,376 --> 01:48:54,540 If we could link B engine, whose neutralizer is dead... 1163 01:48:54,614 --> 01:48:58,778 ...to A engine, whose ion source is dead... 1164 01:48:58,952 --> 01:49:01,750 ...we could have a single engine. 1165 01:49:05,291 --> 01:49:07,282 In theory. 1166 01:49:07,460 --> 01:49:08,791 In theory? 1167 01:49:09,629 --> 01:49:12,792 The circuits have to be linked. 1168 01:49:15,301 --> 01:49:16,461 A bypass circuit? 1169 01:49:16,803 --> 01:49:17,792 Yes. 1170 01:49:18,137 --> 01:49:21,129 We have to link them? 1171 01:49:25,111 --> 01:49:26,135 No. 1172 01:49:28,648 --> 01:49:31,139 They're already linked. 1173 01:49:32,986 --> 01:49:36,285 I thought this might happen... 1174 01:49:36,456 --> 01:49:41,655 ...so without telling anyone I got the maker to link them... 1175 01:49:41,794 --> 01:49:43,125 ...with a diode. 1176 01:49:47,333 --> 01:49:48,595 Sorry. 1177 01:49:54,507 --> 01:49:56,998 But if we do that... 1178 01:49:57,176 --> 01:50:00,634 ...won't the neutralizer heat up and burn? 1179 01:50:01,514 --> 01:50:03,175 It'll be touch and go. 1180 01:50:07,654 --> 01:50:10,088 Sending command file. 1181 01:50:10,156 --> 01:50:15,594 Sending cross-operation sequence, starting with line 8055. 1182 01:50:15,662 --> 01:50:17,357 2, 1, 0. 1183 01:50:18,031 --> 01:50:19,191 Signal sent. 1184 01:50:48,394 --> 01:50:50,157 The engine's on! 1185 01:50:50,229 --> 01:50:51,560 It worked! 1186 01:51:08,915 --> 01:51:10,576 Go neutralizer! 1187 01:51:11,217 --> 01:51:15,847 Forcing the engines this way might just burn them up... 1188 01:51:15,922 --> 01:51:19,085 ...and with two engines, I'm short of power. 1189 01:51:19,525 --> 01:51:22,722 If the breaker flips, my computer will go down. 1190 01:51:23,262 --> 01:51:25,196 I've got to hang tough. 1191 01:51:28,534 --> 01:51:31,765 Chuwa Shrine Okayama Prefecture 1192 01:51:44,283 --> 01:51:45,272 Hello. 1193 01:51:45,385 --> 01:51:48,684 I'm sorry I'm late! 1194 01:51:49,455 --> 01:51:54,256 This is a long way into the countryside to come. 1195 01:51:54,394 --> 01:51:56,123 I'm imposing on you. 1196 01:51:56,963 --> 01:51:58,954 But it has to be here. 1197 01:52:07,974 --> 01:52:09,464 Take this. 1198 01:52:16,416 --> 01:52:19,442 'New Trawl'Shrine 1199 01:52:31,998 --> 01:52:33,295 Next is your turn. 1200 01:52:33,499 --> 01:52:34,989 ...for yourself? 1201 01:52:36,335 --> 01:52:40,169 I've got to do something! 1202 01:53:08,167 --> 01:53:10,465 Wow! 1203 01:53:11,037 --> 01:53:12,868 Stars are being born! 1204 01:53:13,873 --> 01:53:17,809 And now stars are dying! 1205 01:54:10,863 --> 01:54:12,057 What's that? 1206 01:54:12,198 --> 01:54:16,225 Dr Kawabuchi went to a shrine whose name sounds like 'neutralizer'. 1207 01:54:16,435 --> 01:54:20,098 Dr Kawabuchi? To a shrine? 1208 01:54:20,573 --> 01:54:21,562 Mr Fukumoto! 1209 01:54:23,376 --> 01:54:27,312 You need optical tracking for recovery, right? 1210 01:54:31,117 --> 01:54:32,277 Then take me. 1211 01:54:34,387 --> 01:54:35,615 To Australia? 1212 01:54:35,788 --> 01:54:38,621 I worked on Dr Sakagami's team. 1213 01:54:38,791 --> 01:54:42,727 Even if a scorpion bites me, I swear I will... 1214 01:54:42,795 --> 01:54:44,422 ...find that capsule! 1215 01:54:48,601 --> 01:54:50,228 They don't bite. 1216 01:54:53,272 --> 01:54:55,103 May 2010 1217 01:54:55,341 --> 01:54:57,309 Once it hits the atmosphere... 1218 01:54:57,743 --> 01:54:59,734 How long was it? 1219 01:54:59,812 --> 01:55:00,801 Three minutes. 1220 01:55:00,913 --> 01:55:03,108 I hope that beacon deploys. 1221 01:55:03,316 --> 01:55:06,251 We won't find the capsule without it. 1222 01:55:06,452 --> 01:55:07,851 Don't worry. 1223 01:55:07,954 --> 01:55:10,149 We've done all those simulations! 1224 01:55:11,090 --> 01:55:16,255 We've got our recovery plan, but it's only flying on one engine. 1225 01:55:16,495 --> 01:55:17,587 Will it even get here? 1226 01:55:17,663 --> 01:55:20,598 Here we are! 1227 01:55:26,606 --> 01:55:27,800 What's that? 1228 01:55:28,007 --> 01:55:29,201 What's going on? 1229 01:55:30,610 --> 01:55:34,842 Today is Hayabusa's seventh birthday. 1230 01:55:36,315 --> 01:55:37,339 Right! 1231 01:55:38,117 --> 01:55:40,142 It's May 9th, isn't it. 1232 01:55:41,020 --> 01:55:42,510 How time flies. 1233 01:55:43,522 --> 01:55:46,821 Has it been seven years since we launched? 1234 01:55:49,028 --> 01:55:52,191 It's going to be its last birthday, too. 1235 01:55:52,698 --> 01:55:57,362 Whether we get the capsule or not, Hayabusa burns up. 1236 01:55:59,138 --> 01:56:00,196 Ms Mizusawa... 1237 01:56:01,374 --> 01:56:03,706 ...bring the capsule back, OK? 1238 01:56:05,811 --> 01:56:06,800 Right! 1239 01:56:07,847 --> 01:56:09,178 Hey! 1240 01:56:16,555 --> 01:56:20,719 I'm making my last orbit adjustments to bring me back to Earth. 1241 01:56:21,260 --> 01:56:26,562 I'll be shifting trajectory so I drop the capsule... 1242 01:56:26,999 --> 01:56:29,490 ...where I'm supposed to. 1243 01:56:30,036 --> 01:56:34,234 There'll be trouble if I drop it in the wrong place. 1244 01:57:11,110 --> 01:57:12,372 There! 1245 01:57:12,445 --> 01:57:14,709 There it is! 1246 01:57:27,960 --> 01:57:29,052 It's gone! 1247 01:57:43,576 --> 01:57:45,601 What?! 1248 01:57:52,251 --> 01:57:53,843 Hey, wait a minute! 1249 01:57:55,755 --> 01:57:56,744 Wait! 1250 01:58:06,632 --> 01:58:07,621 Yes? 1251 01:58:08,000 --> 01:58:11,595 Mr. Fukumoto! The Optics team is heading out. 1252 01:58:11,670 --> 01:58:14,002 It's time for you, too. 1253 01:58:14,807 --> 01:58:16,934 I'll be right there. 1254 01:58:52,011 --> 01:58:57,381 The capsule, 40 centimeters across, will soon be back on Earth. 1255 01:58:58,017 --> 01:59:00,577 On radar all over the world... 1256 01:59:00,686 --> 01:59:04,622 ...Hayabusa is now in re-entry mode. 1257 01:59:34,653 --> 01:59:37,986 Sending separation command. 1258 01:59:38,123 --> 01:59:42,219 Cutting restraining wire. 1259 01:59:43,762 --> 01:59:45,593 2, 1, 0. 1260 01:59:46,732 --> 01:59:47,824 Signal sent. 1261 02:00:05,084 --> 02:00:07,609 Capsule separation confirmed! 1262 02:00:18,631 --> 02:00:20,622 Three hours to re-entry. 1263 02:00:21,133 --> 02:00:23,931 Shall we show Hayabusa his home? 1264 02:00:26,472 --> 02:00:30,932 Dr Kawabuchi called Hayabusa a 'he'. 1265 02:00:31,310 --> 02:00:32,504 Yes. 1266 02:00:55,734 --> 02:00:57,861 Hello everyone. 1267 02:01:02,841 --> 02:01:04,331 Mr Yabuki. 1268 02:01:06,679 --> 02:01:11,844 Now you'll see the results few people will understand. 1269 02:01:13,252 --> 02:01:16,016 I ended up bringing my son with me. 1270 02:01:17,656 --> 02:01:18,680 Hi. 1271 02:01:19,058 --> 02:01:22,892 Is it true Hayabusa won't be coming back? 1272 02:01:31,770 --> 02:01:34,762 Home, after seven years away. 1273 02:01:38,444 --> 02:01:42,107 The Earth is really beautiful... 1274 02:01:45,451 --> 02:01:48,716 Releasing the capsule made me wobble a bit... 1275 02:01:49,221 --> 02:01:52,554 ...but they straightened me out. 1276 02:02:05,571 --> 02:02:10,565 This is my last picture. I hope it comes out all right. 1277 02:02:18,584 --> 02:02:24,887 And now I'm coming back into Earth's sky. 1278 02:03:45,671 --> 02:03:49,163 23:21 local time (22:51 Japan time) 1279 02:04:31,216 --> 02:04:32,376 Hi, folks. 1280 02:04:35,687 --> 02:04:37,018 I'm back. 1281 02:06:46,952 --> 02:06:48,681 He's back! 1282 02:06:48,787 --> 02:06:50,277 He's back! 1283 02:06:50,422 --> 02:06:52,014 Welcome home! 1284 02:06:55,127 --> 02:06:57,061 Did you make a wish? 1285 02:06:57,129 --> 02:06:58,426 Did you? 1286 02:06:59,064 --> 02:07:00,053 Michiru? 1287 02:07:00,465 --> 02:07:04,458 Hayabusa! You made it! 1288 02:07:05,037 --> 02:07:07,028 You did it! 1289 02:07:09,041 --> 02:07:12,568 Now it's my turn to get out of the house! 1290 02:07:14,613 --> 02:07:17,878 I'm going to go find a job! 1291 02:07:46,945 --> 02:07:47,934 There! 1292 02:07:48,914 --> 02:07:50,074 The capsule! 1293 02:08:24,349 --> 02:08:25,441 Mizusawa... 1294 02:08:29,021 --> 02:08:32,548 When everyone gave up on Nozomi... 1295 02:08:34,960 --> 02:08:37,121 ...did you think we'd failed? 1296 02:08:43,969 --> 02:08:47,962 You saw that film footage of Dr Itokawa? 1297 02:08:50,575 --> 02:08:51,564 Yes! 1298 02:08:52,544 --> 02:08:54,307 'Results', right? 1299 02:09:07,426 --> 02:09:11,055 What are you going to do now? 1300 02:09:18,170 --> 02:09:19,660 Another probe! 1301 02:09:21,840 --> 02:09:23,933 Write your thesis first. 1302 02:09:27,512 --> 02:09:29,002 Good work! 1303 02:10:11,656 --> 02:10:16,116 70 knots, so that times 1 .8... 1304 02:10:16,228 --> 02:10:17,456 ...means about 130 kph. 1305 02:10:17,562 --> 02:10:19,894 So about five more miles... 1306 02:10:20,398 --> 02:10:22,229 Hey! A kangaroo! 1307 02:10:23,735 --> 02:10:26,602 I hope it doesn't take the capsule. 1308 02:10:29,908 --> 02:10:30,897 There! 1309 02:10:31,076 --> 02:10:33,636 There it is! 1310 02:10:33,845 --> 02:10:37,144 John! There it is! 1311 02:10:37,249 --> 02:10:38,580 There! 1312 02:10:38,917 --> 02:10:40,817 Great! 1313 02:10:44,089 --> 02:10:46,023 A world first! 1314 02:10:46,358 --> 02:10:50,761 Analysis of particles in the capsule carried by Hayabusa... 1315 02:10:51,096 --> 02:10:56,363 ...the asteroid exploration probe that returned to Earth in June... 1316 02:10:56,835 --> 02:11:01,670 ...reveals that they formed about 6.3 million years after... 1317 02:11:01,773 --> 02:11:05,709 ...our solar system, which is 1318 02:11:06,044 --> 02:11:08,012 4.568 billion years old. 1319 02:11:08,947 --> 02:11:14,613 They are thought to be minerals flung up after planetary collisions. 1320 02:11:15,353 --> 02:11:21,883 Some asked if perhaps the capsule simply contained dust from Earth... 1321 02:11:22,460 --> 02:11:29,457 ...but close analysis has revealed it did indeed come from Itokawa. 1322 02:11:31,303 --> 02:11:35,967 The material carried in Hayabusa was the first ever brought... 1323 02:11:36,041 --> 02:11:38,509 ...from an asteroid directly to Earth. 1324 02:11:42,981 --> 02:11:47,645 For me, the most important part of the Hayabusa experience... 1325 02:11:49,554 --> 02:11:55,015 ...was that it made me realize my passion for outer space. 1326 02:11:56,428 --> 02:11:59,829 When I realized I was doing what I'd always wanted to do... 1327 02:11:59,898 --> 02:12:01,263 Dr Megumi Mizusawa 1328 02:12:01,366 --> 02:12:06,668 ...I began to think I loved space from the bottom of my heart. 1329 02:12:08,173 --> 02:12:09,162 And... 1330 02:12:12,277 --> 02:12:15,269 ...I began to think about life. 1331 02:12:30,462 --> 02:12:32,293 My life... 1332 02:12:33,198 --> 02:12:39,364 ...is part of the life that has evolved since the universe began. 1333 02:12:40,272 --> 02:12:46,700 If we are all irreplaceable lives born into that evolution... 1334 02:12:47,212 --> 02:12:50,704 ...questions of whose life has value and whose does not... 1335 02:12:51,216 --> 02:12:53,548 ...do not occur. 1336 02:12:54,786 --> 02:12:58,449 We are all connected... 1337 02:12:58,723 --> 02:13:03,387 ...as one element in this vast universe. 1338 02:13:08,633 --> 02:13:11,295 Thank you for listening. 1339 02:19:48,599 --> 02:19:51,591 This is a fictionalized version of the true Hayabusa story. 1340 02:19:51,669 --> 02:19:55,002 Dedicated to the men and women of the Hayabusa project.92904

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