Japan Considering Moon Base, Shuttle Projects

ScentCone writes "A brief article at Newsday mentions a Monday report that JAXA, Japan's counterpart to NASA, is looking at robotic probes on the moon by 2015, and construction on a solar-powered manned research base starting there by 2025. The (very) big bump in the agency's budget will also get spent on tsunami warning technology and other terrestrial communications technology development."

Comments

Re:What's the propertie status of the moon?

[stratjakt]

Noone owns the moon, theres some UN law that makes it an international property.

Japan can't set up anything on the moon without other nations approval.

Not that anyone outside of the US gives a flying fuck about UN resolutions.

Re:Me too

[njcoder]

Didn't we (the US) already claim the moon? Let them go find their own moon. I hear saturn keeps popping up new ones we didn't know of before.

Re:What's the propertie status of the moon?

[drinkypoo]

Yeah, the truth is that no one gives a flying fuck about UN resolutions unless it's convenient for them at the time.