is what I'm most looking forward to. Two Orion modules together would be enough for a mission lasting a few weeks, the almost complete lack of gravity would mean no lander would be necessary nor a rocket for the way back, and it would technically be the farthest we had ever gone. Plus the fact that understanding asteroids will help them not kill us. A binary asteroid would be best.

No, it didn't die. It'll be back here in 2010. Whether it got the samples as it was supposed to do is another story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa