Jun
12th
Sat
12th
The Japanese Space Agency Has The Right Idea
Japan is aiming for a moon base to be constructed by robots before 2020. This is a seriously good idea that NASA should have been working on for decades now, instead of shuttling people up to the ISS. I guess the ISS is cool and all, but a permanent moon base built and maintained by robots? How can you beat that? Even if the Japanese don’t get their moon base built on time — at least they’ve invested in developing robot technology that could be incredibly useful to their aging population on Earth. Robot technologies have dividends for the Earth-based economy, something that the ISS and the proposals to go Mars or an asteroid don’t.
