Tech Japan to land astronaut on the moon in the late 2020s

[thomas]

First, I thought this was a joke, but the plan was announced last Tuesday by the Space Development Strategy Headquarters: the Japanese government plans to land a Japanese astronaut on the moon in the second half of the 2020s who would become the first non-American on the moon.

If I remember correctly, China wanted to send an astronaut to the moon by 2025.

It was the first time for Japan to specify a time frame for a human landing on the moon. Japan has already decided to join the U.S.-led Artemis program aimed at exploring the moon and landing an astronaut there in or after 2025. The last time a human has reached the moon's surface was decades ago in NASA's Apollo program. NASA is now leading a project to launch a cislunar space station called Gateway. Japan will contribute to the Gateway project by developing a new type of an unmanned logistics vehicle to transport goods to the space station as well as a manned lunar rover vehicle.

Japan plans to land astronaut on the moon in 2nd half of 2020s | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

 

[Grandpa Frank]

And the visual kei group breaks into song soon after landing.