Japan launches the first commercial flight to the moon

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A Japanese space startup launched a spacecraft to the moon on Sunday after several delays, a step toward what would be a first for the nation and for a private company.

They launched from Cape canaveral FL, using a Space X rocket.

Privately funded ispace has a contract with NASA to ferry payloads to the moon from 2025 and is aiming to build a permanently staffed lunar colony by 2040.

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. It will also be carrying an experimental solid-state battery made by NGK Spark Plug Co.

This will be something to watch. Rovers on the moon. "Payloads" being brought to the moon on the regular, and eventually colonizing the moon by 2040. Pretty interesting stuff. This will be cool to see what they do with all of it, and where this may go. It would be pretty neat to work on the moon.

Imagine wanting to colonize a dead rock whose environment is literally uninhabitable unless you bring your own artificial atmosphere and biome from home, which is basically the same as immigrating your entire native habitat.

originally posted by: TzarChasm
Imagine wanting to colonize a dead rock whose environment is literally uninhabitable unless you bring your own artificial atmosphere and biome from home, which is basically the same as immigrating your entire native habitat.

I think it'll just be a place for the elites to go to, for when the SHTF here.

If its cost around 10K at some point I would like to visit the moon hotel

a reply to: AOx6179

When I was a young child, this series about a Moon colony and the troubles they faced, due to the Moon leaving Earth's orbit, was a favorite weekly show.

originally posted by: Spacespider
If its cost around 10K at some point I would like to visit the moon hotel

You can have your honeymoon there.

You and your new wife/husband can literally hit the ceiling together.

a reply to: AOx6179

“ United Arab Emirates”

First photo back, an Arab waving a scimitar screaming ### akbar….


sarc/

a reply to: Spacespider

Now I know what to do when “The Sarge” says she needs some alone time….

I would (maybe) be willing to work on the moon if the benefits were decent, but maybe not. Who knows how they're going to screw it all up. If you've never seen the movie "Moon", make some time to watch it. It's not a flashy science fiction--it's more psychological, and it has a very lonely feeling to it. It follows a worker's three year shift mining on the moon.

I have a feeling the future of moon colonization will look a little bit more like "Moon" than "2001: A Space Odyssey", but anything is possible.

I'm too old for this but I would have totally wanted to go the moon, regardless of 'benefits' or pay or whatever. I have done quite some drastic moves in my younger years. Consequences and discomfort would be all part of the adventure.
Also who is this spoilsport that calls it a dead rock and useless to go to?
Every journey starts with just one step.
Once we are able to keep sustainable pods on the Moon, next would be Mars. This would be a very, very, very, long term and slow development but it would be a first step.
It's like living on an island and not knowing the rest of the world and saying "why would anyone go on unsteady water, where you have to stay on a ship and can't get off..."
Well, you'll never get to see whatever lies beyond with that opinion.
I say, we might as well behave as if we are the only living beings in the Universe and see what goes and expand our dumb species, in case we are.
Those who don't dare, don't win.

It’s called having a mid point off point off world for further space missions. Also there is a stupid amount of rare minerals there. you complete derp.
Almost as dumb as that time you said boobs arnt sexualized anyplace else but the west. I still laugh about that sometimes.
Can’t see the forest from the trees sometime old boy.


a reply to: TzarChasm

originally posted by: Athetos
It’s called having a mid point off point off world for further space missions. Also there is a stupid amount of rare minerals there. you complete derp.
Almost as dumb as that time you said boobs arnt sexualized anyplace else but the west. I still laugh about that sometimes.
Can’t see the forest from the trees sometime old boy.


a reply to: TzarChasm

Wait...if there's no boobs on the moon...I don't want to go! That's the westerner in me I suppose!

Actually...the moon...imagine...ya...I'd go whether there's boobs or not!

I'm curious how Japan jumped so far ahead and with the other space programs...it seems inevitable we may get to go in my lifetime...exciting thought actually!

originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: AOx6179

When I was a young child, this series about a Moon colony and the troubles they faced, due to the Moon leaving Earth's orbit, was a favorite weekly show.

I would LOVE a decent remake of this! Just think of how many people would watch it now, I'm surprised no one's cashed in on this yet.

originally posted by: wavelength
I would (maybe) be willing to work on the moon if the benefits were decent, but maybe not. Who knows how they're going to screw it all up. If you've never seen the movie "Moon", make some time to watch it. It's not a flashy science fiction--it's more psychological, and it has a very lonely feeling to it. It follows a worker's three year shift mining on the moon.

I have a feeling the future of moon colonization will look a little bit more like "Moon" than "2001: A Space Odyssey", but anything is possible.

Great movie, and you described it perfectly. 👌🏼

originally posted by: TzarChasm
Imagine wanting to colonize a dead rock whose environment is literally uninhabitable unless you bring your own artificial atmosphere and biome from home, which is basically the same as immigrating your entire native habitat.

As long as there's a big telescope to keep an eye on earth, it will be a good vantage point from which to watch humans go extinct, or close to it.

We all know it's more likely than not to happen sometime. If humans don't do it, a natural disaster, comet, or asteroid probably will.

Okay where’s MIM?

originally posted by: ManSizedSquirrel
Okay where’s MIM?

He's busy looking for a data carrier or an ISP on the Moon. No luck yet, he may have to start his own and be the first man to have internet service there.📱📡

The guy watched too much Robotech in the 1980's if you ask me!

a reply to: jerryznv

Didn't Japan land a vehicle on the dark side of the moon about 2 years ago, that sent back pictures which were really eerie? A huge structure was in one photo I believe. And it wasn't really dark on that side of the moon.

originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: jerryznv

Didn't Japan land a vehicle on the dark side of the moon about 2 years ago, that sent back pictures which were really eerie? A huge structure was in one photo I believe. And it wasn't really dark on that side of the moon.

Wait I think I’m remembering this CWM. wasn’t there a thread or two here about it?

originally posted by: TzarChasm
Imagine wanting to colonize a dead rock whose environment is literally uninhabitable unless you bring your own artificial atmosphere and biome from home, which is basically the same as immigrating your entire native habitat.

Imagine lacking the vision to understand all the implications and possibilities this could open up.