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John Batchelor and I welcomed Dr. Jim Green, NASA Planetary Science Director, to discuss NASA partnerships with national space agencies with a focus on the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA). During our double Hotel Mars segment for about 20 minutes, we discussed the Japanese missions Hayabusa, Hayabusa 2, and Akatsuki which is now in orbit around Venus. Some of our questions dealt with the Hayabusa comet visit and sample return, plus the Hayabusa 2 mission now en route to asteroid 1999 JU3. We talked about the way NASA contributed to these missions, ground simulation models for mission problem solving, sample returns, and the art of planetary mission sample return. We also spoke about Akatsuki which after several years is now in orbit around Venus due to years of problem solving for a propulsion problem. Dr. Green explained this methodology to us plus we talked about some of the very early science discoveries regarding Venus given Akatsuki is now orbiting our sister planet. As the segment was ending, Dr. Green mentioned the next JAXA mission, MMX Martian Moons. NASA is working with JAXA on this mission as well.
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