BREAKING NEWS: ACCIDENT REPORTED ON ASTEROID MISSION
TOKYO (AP) -- In a press conference minutes ago, President Nakamura of Senji Aeronautics, Inc., the world's second largest aeronautics provider, announced that its manned mission to the asteroid belt had collided with an unknown object and was irreparably damaged. The crew are alive and well, but the ship's engines have been damaged beyond repair and the ship is now flying off course into empty space.
Vice President Yamamoto was quoted as saying: "There is no hope for rescue."
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