

140 minutes
10/1/2011
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.

Yuko Takeuchi
as Megumi Mizusawa

Toshiyuki Nishida
as Yasuhiro Matoba

Masahiro Takashima
as Kenichi Sakagami

Katsuhisa Namase
as enthusiastic fan of Hayabusa

Shiro Sano
as Kawabuchi

Shingo Tsurumi
as Osamu KIta

Koji Yamamoto
as Manabu Tajima

Shizuka Fujimoto
as Atsuko Daito

Shinji Rokkaku
as Sotaro Takaoka

Tarō Suwa
as Chairman Tanabe