8 surprising hunks of space gear that returned to Earth
NASA and others have had their share of spacecraft parts fall back to Earth
The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa's high-speed, fiery return to Earth brought with it a hunk of the asteroid Itokawa. Hayabusa landed in an unpopulated area of Australia on June 13, 2010.
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