Hayabusa
May 9, 2003 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa into orbit. Its mission is to collect samples from a near Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. Hayabusa is scheduled to make contact with the asteroid in November 2005. As the spacecraft approaches its rendezvous date with the asteroid problems arise for the JAXA staff back on Earth.
- Genre: Adventure, Drama
- Studio: 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Japan, Agung, Mainichi Shimbun, Office Crescendo, Sony Music Entertainment, dentsu, KADOKAWA Shoten, Fox International Productions Japan
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- Cast: Yuko Takeuchi, Toshiyuki Nishida, Masahiro Takashima, Namase Katsuhisa, Shirō Sano, Shingo Tsurumi