The first of Aoshima's new "Spacecraft Series"! This is the Hayabusa, a Japanese asteroid probe launched to rendezvous with the asteroid "Itokawa", collect data and samples, and then return it all back to Earth. The base is shaped like the asteroid, and the small rover Minerva is included.
Hayabusa's mission was a spectacular success. In June 2010, the sample capsule safely reentered the Earth's atmosphere and landed in Australia (the rest of the craft burned up). In November of 2010, the Japan Space Agency (JAXA) announced that the capsule did, in fact, contain particles that were successfully harvested from the surface of the asteriod, Itokawa. This makes Hayabusa the first craft in human history that landed on an extraterrestrial body, collected a sample, took back off and safely returned to Earth.
The Shizuoka Hobby Show kicked off this past Thursday, May 16th and we were there! We took in the Bandai booth, along with those of other distributors, who had some new plamo to...
In this episode of Gunpla TV Ryan introduces the audience to what he has planned for his next kit, and Syd explains about the Real Grade line of Gunpla kits finishing off with the...
In this episode of Gunpla TV Ryan wants to show off his newly acquired dry-brushing skills while Syd fawns over the MG Jesta while the anticipated RG Destiny makes a (somewhat...
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