Space exploration began with the launch of Sputnik and Astrophysics was born as the application of physics to the phenomena observed by Astronomy, which etymologically means laws of the stars.
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A proposed US/Japanese mission to obtain a sample from a small near-Earth asteroid, Nereus. A Japanese vehicle is to provide the launch in January 2002 and a miniature roving vehicle contributed by NASA will land to make measurements on the asteroid surface. The asteroid samples will be returned to Earth in January 2006 by MUSES-C via a parachute-borne capsule.
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