'Meaningful step': Japanese company launches world's first commercial moon lander

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A Japanese startup launches a spacecraft to the moon after several delays from Cape Canaveral in Florida, sending a watching crowd in Tokyo into raptures.

abc.net.au/news/japan-ispace-launch-moon-lander-hakuto-r/101759502A Japanese startup company has launched a spacecraft to the moon after several delays, a step toward what would be a first for the nation and for a private company.If successful, it would be the first mission achieved by a private companyTokyo-based ispace Inc's HAKUTO-R mission took off without incident on Sunday from Cape Canaveral in Florida, after two postponements caused by inspections of its SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

"I'm so happy. After repeated delays, it's good that we had a proper launch today," Yuriko Takeda, who watched the launch, said. The national space agencies of the United States, Russia and China have achieved soft landings but no companies have. The M1 lander will deploy two robotic rovers, a two-wheeled, baseball-sized device from Japan's JAXA space agency and the four-wheeled Rashid explorer made by the United Arab Emirates."The Rashid rover is part of the United Arab Emirates ambitious space programme," United Arab Emirates vice president Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said.

 

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So cool ... when I was younger we had ... LEGO ... thats it

Speaking of meaningful: Because of Anthony Fauci's advanced age time is running out for the billions who want to see him prosecuted and jailed for his crimes. He MUST be arrested promptly and brought before a specially convened criminal court.

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