Thousands Line Up For Hayabusa Exhibit
The Hayabusa space probe has been put on public display at the Sagamihara City Museum, and thousands of people have been waiting outside in the rain and the summer heat for a chance to see the probe for just a couple minutes:
At 9:30 a.m. on July 30, there were already some 2,100 people waiting in line to enter the museum, which is located next to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Sagamihara campus.
“I want to see the results of workers’ efforts that brought Hayabusa home safely,” said a 39-year-old company employee from the Osaka Prefecture city of Sennan, who was the first in line waiting from 4:30 a.m.
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The museum will hold the exhibition until July 31 (9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., admission free). The capsule will also go on show at JAXA’s Tsukuba Space Center from Aug. 2 to Aug. 6 (The thermal cover to be displayed Aug. 2-Aug. 3 only) and at Tokyo’s Marunouchi Oazo building from Aug. 15 to Aug. 19 (The thermal cover: Aug. 15-Aug. 16 only).
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