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While the Hayabusa mission was a technology demonstration, Hayabusa2 was the first mission to put this into scientific practice! The Hayabusa2 team approached the development of the sample collection device, sample storage container, and the Earth re-entry capsule will the same spirit: the goal was to return material from asteroid Ryugu without contamination, without any change, and without any leakage of the Earth’s environment to the sample. Hayabusa2 incorporated many steady and precise technologies that bridge the gap between “being able to collect a sample” to “collecting a sample that can lead to rich scientific results.” -- Tsuda Yuichi, Lead of Hayabusa2♯ Extended Mission Team