The Hayabusa2 Project has received messages of support from so many people. The encouragement and enthusiasm from you all for the mission has made the entire project team fired up and enthusiastic!
Here, we will introduce a few of the items that have been sent to us, which does not include all the amazing messages we have also received as letters, tweets and in person.
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[open in another window]Picture 1: Support messages collect by Taisho Pharmaceuticals at the JAXA Sagamihara Campus Open House (July 27, 2018),. Mr Akiyama of Tashio Pharmaceuticals is on the right, while our Project Manager, Dr. Tsuda, is standing on the left. We received this on September 18, 2018 and messages from you all are written on each of the labels. (Photo credit: JAXA).
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[open in another window]Picture 2: Support messages on the team gathered at a joint event between Sagamihara City and Taisho Pharmaceuticals at Ario Hashimoto on December 8 - 9, 2018. Ms Suzuki of Sagamihara City is standing on the left our Project Manager, Dr. Tsuda, is on the right. The Sagamihara City mascot, “Sagamin” also came! We received this message board on February 13. (Photo credit: JAXA)
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[open in another window]Picture 3: Messages of support gathered from the Planetary Society of Japan, Mainichi Newspaper and Taisho Pharmaceuticals. Mr Imoto from the Planetary Society of Japan is seated on the left, while our Project Manager, Dr. Tsuda, is on the right. We received this message board on February 14. (Photo credit: JAXA)
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[open in another window]Picture 4: The originals of the messages that are displayed in Picture 3. Mr Hoshino of Taisho Pharmaceuticals is on the left, Mr Inomoto of the Planetary Society of Japan is in the middle and our Mission Manager, Dr. Yoshikawa, is on the right. We also received this on February 14. (Photo credit: JAXA)
On the book of original messages shown in the last picture (4), it reads “Please open this when times are hard or when you reach a plateau”. Some people --including the Project Manager, Tsuda and Mission Manager, Yoshikawa-- have already opened this and soothed themselves by reading the messages from everyone.
Thank you very much for sending us such warm and powerful messages of support.
Hayabusa2 project
2019.02.20 (Translated 2019.02.22)