Ravens_cry
2010-06-14, 12:05 AM
She is back. (http://planetary.org/blog/article/00002546/)
After many years and numerous partial failures that nearly aborted the mission, HAYABUSA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa), whose name is the word for peregrine falcon in Japanese, has returned to Earth, her capsule, possibly containing pieces of another world, has landed safely on the ground and is, or has already has, been recovered. Congratulations to all the scientists and engineers at JAXA for keeping this bird flying.
She herself was destroyed by the fires of reentry.
May these fires be phoenix flames, birthing new knowledge of a small world beyond our own, having already given us so much.
*sob* *sniff*
By the way, is there anyone on the forum who can translate this (http://drawr.net/show.php?id=1478887)?
ありがとうございます。
After many years and numerous partial failures that nearly aborted the mission, HAYABUSA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa), whose name is the word for peregrine falcon in Japanese, has returned to Earth, her capsule, possibly containing pieces of another world, has landed safely on the ground and is, or has already has, been recovered. Congratulations to all the scientists and engineers at JAXA for keeping this bird flying.
She herself was destroyed by the fires of reentry.
May these fires be phoenix flames, birthing new knowledge of a small world beyond our own, having already given us so much.
*sob* *sniff*
By the way, is there anyone on the forum who can translate this (http://drawr.net/show.php?id=1478887)?
ありがとうございます。