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Japan Plans a Moonbase by 2030
Aglassis writes "The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced at a conference that they are planning to build a Moonbase by 2030. Since JAXA doesn't currently have a 100 ton-class heavy lift rocket or a human transportation system perhaps now is a good time for JAXA to join in with NASA on the Project Constellation rocket program."
Under the plan, astronauts will be sent to the Moon around 2020 to start construction of the base that will be completed by 2030
This reminds me of the timeframes set out by the state construction workers on our highways.
Considering all the reliability concerns of running an extraterrestrial habitat in vacuum, I'm glad they are using JAXA technology rather than AJAX!
That's funny, I *also* have plans to build a base on the moon! I wonder how likely it is to go through?
I really hope it does happen. Before I die I have to go to the moon. I hope we start building condos out there in 50 years or so.
Moonbase Alpha was was scheduled for 1999, but EPA studies, the union strikes, and other construction delays caused the new completion date to be 2030.
When will the moon be torn out of orbit?
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No, it will just start a new batch of allegations that the Japanese are faking their moon landings and subsequent moonbase construction...
This guy's the limit!
all your base are belong to us?
Moon Unit Zappa.
Task Mangler
But...but...but we're gonna send people to Mars long before the Japanese base is completed...
This guy's the limit!
Well, the tip off will be when they return with footage of a giant moth they discover in Tycho.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
"This reminds me of the timeframes set out by the state construction workers on our highways."
However, due to stark environmental realities, the sympathy strike by the oxygen-delivery union will have fatal consequences on the moon construction workers' picket line.
Where were you when the voynix came?
Seeing as how the name of the agency is in English (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) I'd think they pronounce it as close to the way we would as they can. That'd be something like Jahk-shuh, as we'd say jacks-uh.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
You call it moon. We call it "Gitmo II".
Where were you when the voynix came?
I believe you mean "Whalers on the Moon".
please turn in your Geek Card on your way out. :-)
Badass Resumes
I hope they televise the progress.
In any case, 24 years seems quite a lot to me, considering that all the technology needed to accomplish this is available.
This is because Jack Bauer is involved in the project.
The following takes place between 2012 and 2013.
I heard pixar got the contract to create the moon base...
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Just to prove my infinite superiority, here are the lyrics:
We're whalers on the moon.
we carry a harpoon.
but there ain't no whales,
so we tell tall tales,
and sing our whalin' tune.
Badass Resumes
I bet that 4 acre lot of the moon I bought off the internet for $50,000 is EXACTLY where the Japs are going to build their base... Not sure how I'll evict them....
Future ruler of a small Asian-Pacific island
and it will probably be safer too.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
that the US faked the moon landings! :)
Faked the moon landings is such pre-9/11 thinking. All the cool kids think that US orchestrated 9/11 now.
Of course it will...with less gravity on the moon, you'll easily be able to dodge that big chunk of concrete coming down at you....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Everyone knows that the universe ends in 2012...