Topic
Sample Return
3 questions tagged Sample Return — spanning every one of the seven Ws.
when
When was the first sample from an asteroid returned to Earth?
Hayabusa returned asteroid samples to Earth on 13 June 2010. It brought back material from asteroid Itokawa.
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which
Which mission first returned samples from an asteroid to Earth?
JAXA’s Hayabusa mission was the first to return asteroid samples, from Itokawa, in 2010.
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whose
Whose mission first returned samples from the Moon?
The Soviet Luna 16 mission returned the first lunar samples to Earth in 1970. It brought back about 101 grams of regolith.
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