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India and Japan to Collaborate on Lunar Lander and Sample Return Mission

posted by Fnord666 on Monday November 20 2017, @04:52AM   
from the moon-rocks dept.

takyon writes:

India, Japan working on lunar sample return mission

India plans to visit the moon a third time and also return, with Japan for company this time.

Their lander and rover mission will bring samples back from moon, the chiefs of the two space agencies said on Friday.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have started to work out the contours of their joint trip — which will be the third for both countries.

They did not say when it would be sent. The plans are in the early stages: Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman and Secretary, Department of Space, A.S.Kiran Kumar, and JAXA president Naoki Okumura said the 'implementation arrangements' are likely be reached in a couple of months.

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• True True (Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @08:05AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @08:05AM (#599182)

  India also has massala dosa. Too bad, they don't have no toilet.

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• Re:True (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday November 20 2017, @06:11PM

  by bob_super (1357) on Monday November 20 2017, @06:11PM (#599319)

  It's intentional. If humans fertilize the fields, you want optimum dispersal.

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