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Japan Plans a Moonbase by 2030

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the then-acknowlege-name-change-to-ix dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Remember the good old days? by The+Great+Pretender · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I seem to recall Bush always being ridiculed, for everything

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  2. What a difference 44 years makes! by pashdown · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1962 - "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

    2006 - "Its too hard and too expensive."