Hayabusa

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.

Cast

Yuko Takeuchi

Megumi Mizusawa

Toshiyuki Nishida

Yasuhiro Matoba

Masahiro Takashima

Kenichi Sakagami

Katsuhisa Namase

enthusiastic fan of Hayabusa

Shiro Sano

Kawabuchi

Shingo Tsurumi

Osamu KIta

Koji Yamamoto

Manabu Tajima

Shizuka Fujimoto

Atsuko Daito

Shinji Rokkaku

Sotaro Takaoka

Tarō Suwa

Chairman Tanabe