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Leiji Matsumoto's Name On Japanese Spacecraft
Date: 11/22/2005
Turkish Weekly reports the Hayabusa unmanned Japanese space probe sent to collect what would be the world's first samples from an asteroid has failed to touch down on its target. A target marker on the spacecraft contains on two aluminum sheets the names of 880,000 people from 149 countries, including those of science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke, film director Steven Spielberg and manga artist Reiji Matsumoto
Source: Anime News Service