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Japan Considering Moon Base, Shuttle Projects

Posted by timothy on from the sharks-lasers-butterflies dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Implications by SewersOfRivendell · · Score: 0, Troll
    Yes. I'm glad to see Bush's recent directives to NASA to focus some more riveting projects. Can't wait for more of the same.

    Can't wait for what, more senseless political grandstanding (let's go to Mars and make Shrub look like a visionary! like anybody cares about Mars! "what is that, a planet or something?"), or more underfunded and useless "science" initiatives? Hey, maybe we can search for images of Jesus in space -- or figure out how to flatten the Earth and fill the universe with toxic waste so that it matches the one-planet conception of the universe that you have if you take the Bible literally -- that'd make the fundies who vote for Bush happy.

    Bush doesn't care about space any more than he cares about human life.

    Go ahead and troll-rate me, mods -- I've got Karma, and you know it's true. Whoo-hoo!