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TOKYO – A Japanese space explorer was launched Wednesday on a six-year roundtrip journey to blow a crater in a remote asteroid and collect samples from inside in hopes of gathering clues to the origin ...

Fame at last for Japanese explorer who almost reached the South Pole Nobu Shirase left Japan in 1910, at a time when very few others did, and travelled south to eventually become the first ...