Capsule returns to Earth in milestone for Japanese space missions

A capsule ejected from a space cargo vessel returned to Earth on Sunday, bringing back experiment samples from the International Space Station in the first such mission for Japan.The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency said the capsule, measuring 84 centimeters in width and 66 cm in height, made a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific near Japan's far-east Minamitori Island early in the morning and was retrieved later in the day."I think we've succeeded almost as planned," Hirohiko Uematsu, technology director of JAXA, told a press conference at its Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki …READ FULL ARTICLE