re: re:It's sort of the way the Japanese like it.
With the MERs and Pathfinder, we got to see the faces and even some of the personalities of the people working on those space missions, thanks to NASA/JPL.
The people who are working on Hayabusa are virtually unknown to the public, as far as I can tell. Faceless authorities just lead us to wonder what's going on with the mission, how is it being run, and who is making sure things don't go wrong.
Or am I just being a nosy, overly emotional, individualistic American?