...is this rope?
Eh?
What...
Well, here we go!
Now then, it's time to set off!
The dream to return with parts of an asteroid.
Alright!
Take care of yourself, okay.
Target Marker, check.
This fulfills the dreams of 880,000 people.
It's 300 million km to the asteroid.
She's aimed at deep space.
Sample horn, check.
MUSES-C is an asteroid probe.
MUSES-C
* MUSES-C-san<p>Refers to Hayabusa</p><p>She is the Space Probe Mecha Musume who is a personification of asteroid probe Hayabusa.
The events that take place in this manga are based on what actually happened to Hayabusa, but with completely different characters so there is no relationship with JAXA.</p>
<p>(Must explicitly mention this to avoid implicating JAXA.)</p>
* Deep space<p>There are several definitions, but with regard to satellite exploration, any distance beyond the Moon is often referred to as deep space.</p>
* Asteroid Explorer Hayabusa <tt>(MUSES-C)</tt><p>This comic is a biography of this Orbiter. It is great.</p><p><a href="http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/index.shtml">The JAXA official webpage</a> refers to it as "he" and "Hayabusa-kun," so it's probably male. Based on when the project started (1995-1996) it would be between 14-16 years old, or if based on when it was launched (May 2003), it would be 7 years old.
Considering it can use Twitter, it seems like a considerably modern child.</p>
MUSES-C's twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/muses_c">http://twitter.com/muses_c</a>
* 880,000 people<p>This refers to the signatures collected from <a href="http://www.planetary.or.jp/muses-c/pc/en/campaign.html">"Let's fly to meet your Star Prince" Campaign.</a></p><p>Signatures were actually collected from 877,490 people in 149 countries. Numerous celebrities signed, including manga creator Matsumoto Reiji and former professional baseball manager Nagashima Shigeo from Japan, as well as director Steven Spielberg and author Arthur Charles Clarke from overseas.</p><p>480,000 signatures were collected from America, more than from any other country.</p>
* It's 300 million km to the asteroid<p>A great distant that takes light thousands of seconds to reach. The destination there is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25143_Itokawa">an asteroid</a> measuring only 500 meters.</p><p>It is also known as "1998 SF36."</p>
* Target Marker<p>A ball-shaped object dropped on an asteroid for use as a marker.</p><p>It performs the same function as a lighthouse. Hayabusa-san has 3 target markers, one of which is embedded with the signatures of 880,000 people.</p>
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