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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:US moon base by AcidLacedPenguiN · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    because we all know Bush will somehow still be in power in 2020. (I was not being sardonic:)
    Doesn't the American election system stop you at 2 back-to-back terms?

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  2. Re:US moon base by bsartist · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Doesn't the American election system stop you at 2 back-to-back terms?
    The legal limit is just 2 terms, back-to-back or not. He can't legally run for president again, ever. Although, he is eligible for other offices. There was a president (I forget who) who served in the senate for many years after his term in the Oval Office was over.
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  3. Re:Relability by Reverend528 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, as we all know, Java is not fault tolerant and should not be used for the aircraft navigation or air traffic control.

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  4. Re:US moon base by srussell · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Didn't Bush reinstate plans to start putting Americans back on the moon shortly after he was elected?

    No, that was his re-election bid, to tempt intellectuals who were sick of the pseudo-science crap coming out of the Whitehouse. Of course, you haven't heard anything about it since he was re-elected, because if God hadda wanted us to be on the moon, he wouldn't have made the homomoseshual anti-Americun baby-killer terrorists.

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  5. Re:JAXA? by ccollao · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Also does Experience (or it was Expert?) in windoze XP... They are just using the "advantage" of the M$ Propaganda....