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Japan Planning to Put a Man on the Moon Around 2030

posted by martyb on Saturday July 01 2017, @12:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the to-visit-the-Chinese-who-will-already-be-there dept.

takyon writes:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/29/asia/japan-moon-landing-jaxa/index.html

Japan plans to put a man on the moon around 2030, according to a new proposal by the government's Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). It is the first time JAXA has revealed an intention to send Japanese astronauts beyond the International Space Station, and it will mostly likely be part of an international mission, the agency said.

[...] A spokesman for JAXA told CNN the new plan wasn't to send an exclusively Japanese rocket to the Moon, which would be extremely costly, but rather to contribute to a multinational manned lunar probe. By contributing technology, JAXA would hope to be allotted a space on the mission, which would begin preparation in 2025.

Also at Space News.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 01 2017, @12:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 01 2017, @12:46AM (#533777)

    All your moon base are belong to us!

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Saturday July 01 2017, @01:07AM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Saturday July 01 2017, @01:07AM (#533782)

    Is that rocket going to be wired half in 60Hz and half in 50Hz [wikipedia.org]?

    Talking about double standards, I thought we didn't allow people living in that corner of the world to launch ballistic rockets...

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday July 01 2017, @01:21AM

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday July 01 2017, @01:21AM (#533785) Journal

      Read the summary! Sounds like they will pay SpaceX or ULA and coordinate the mission with NASA and ESA.

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    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 01 2017, @05:17AM

      by kaszz (4211) on Saturday July 01 2017, @05:17AM (#533825) Journal

      They should go for 230 V to reduce the need for heavy cables and 60 Hz to reduce the need for a lot of iron in transformers and motors. One benefit with 50 Hz is PAL compatibility though which has way better colors and stability.

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 01 2017, @01:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 01 2017, @01:37AM (#533789)

    Not without leaving a bunch of sperm. Their population is crashing big time.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 01 2017, @02:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 01 2017, @02:50AM (#533804)

    It's an easy promise for a politician to make because if it fails, it's long after their tenure.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 01 2017, @04:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 01 2017, @04:38AM (#533818)

    So !that! was the very strange Japanese TV show I saw... the one with the guys in latex and many trampolines. They were doing early research for their Moon shot!

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