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Japan has failed twice to make its mark on the moon in the last 12 months, but optimism surrounds its latest attempt which could see the Asian nation become the fifth country to touch the lunar surface.
“I have no reason to believe that Japan wouldn’t be successful,” said Kari Bingen, director of the Aerospace Security Project and a senior fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
“The two failures they had earlier were very different ones.”
Bingen warned that despite the country’s strong space science program, the mission is “very technically sophisticated” and it will be hard.
Technion Professor Ehud Behar shares his thoughts on space exploration in this article.