Re: Japan headed to the Moon in 20 years?

In article <d32r65$sk5$1$8302bc10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Paul Blay" <ranma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "Joe Strout" <joe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
> > <http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1339842.htm>
>
> Old news.

Perhaps, in the grand scheme of things, but it was new to me.

> I've seen surprisingly little competitive spirit between Japan and China in
> with regard to space.

Me too. Is this because China's progress in this area has only recently
become embarrassingly obvious? Or because they really don't care?

Given the long history of animosity between the two countries, it's hard
to imagine that the Japanese aren't feeling a bit put out by the success
of the Chinese space program. Seems like it would be very similar to
how Sputnik stirred emotions in the U.S.

But perhaps that's not a good enough reason to pursue an ambitious
program in the face of a national debt -- the Japanese may be more
practical than Americans in this regard.

> > Certainly the Japanese have the technical know-how; in fact, considering
> > their innovation in nearly all other technical fields and their
> > future-thinking population, their slow progress in space development has
> > always been a little baffling.
>
> As a /single country/ they are second only to the U.S.

I don't understand this. How are they ahead of Russia? Or China?

> I think there's a good chance it will go ahead, with a typical amount of
> schedule slippage and on the apparently longer timeline of the article I
> linked to.

That seems reasonable to me.

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