Space agency to delay asteroid probe's return

Thursday, December 15, 2005

TOKYO -- Japan's space agency will delay until 2010 the return of a star-crossed probe sent to collect samples from an asteroid because a thruster problem put the vehicle into an unexpected spin, an agency official said Wednesday.

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