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In order to prevent contamination, sample return missions place strict requirements for the time taken to recover the sample capsule. For Hayabusa2, this meant that the capsule had to be transported to our clean rooms within 100 hours of the return to Earth. The capsule recovery team recovered the capsule and the heat shield in Australia in about 11 hours, and successfully transported the samples to ISAS in Japan and handed these over to the curation team within about 57 hours. Although the team had prepared for a variety of different problems, this recovery was achieved in almost the shortest time possible. I hope this will lead to excellent analytical results. -- Nakazawa Satoru, Hayabusa2♯ Extended Mission