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Japan Plans a Moon Base by 2020, Built by Robots for Robots

Posted May 28, 2010 11:10 AM

From Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now:

America may have eighty-sixed its moon base ambitions, but the Japanese have no plans to let perfectly good lunar real estate go to waste. An ambitious $2.2 billion project in the works at JAXA, the Japanese space agency, plans to put humanoid robots on the moon by 2015, and now official backing from the Prime Minister's office says the Japanese could have an unmanned lunar base up and running by 2020.

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05/28/2010 11:30 AM

Good for them.

Don't you wonder why they would do that?
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05/29/2010 12:53 AM

They would do that for exactly the same reasons as the Americans.

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05/29/2010 7:34 AM

Politics? ;-)
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05/29/2010 9:07 AM

So this is what 40 years of playing politics with the space program brings - the Japanese, Chinese and Indians inherit the solar system.

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06/01/2010 10:56 AM

Wonder what will be sold first on the moon: Sushi or Hamburgers?

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06/01/2010 8:56 PM

Sushi, burgers are not in anymore.

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