New Scientist Reports:

A new-and-improved successor to the troubled Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa – which finally returned a capsule to Earth earlier this year – could launch as soon as 2014. Hayabusa 2 would then be expected to return in 2020, bearing clues to the origin of life on Earth.

Last week, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) got the go-ahead from the government to begin development of Hayabusa 2, which will cost an estimated 164 billion yen ($2 billion).

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