SELENE Lunar Orbiter, Japan Also Plans for Robot Lunar Lander in 10 years |
SELENE Lunar Orbiter, Japan Also Plans for Robot Lunar Lander in 10 years |
Apr 13 2006, 04:48 PM
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ASTRONOTES: Japan Prepares for Unmanned Lunar Lander Mission
http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html Japan's space agency has set up a team to send an unmanned mission to the surface of the moon, possibly within the next 10 years, officials said Wednesday. To quote: JAXA's SELENE moon orbiter is due for launch in 2007, and officials announced last year that they hope to send a manned mission to the moon by 2025. A decision to possibly to try for Mars and other planets would be made after 2025. SELENE Web site from NSSDC: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=SELENE -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Apr 14 2006, 12:01 PM
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