Dukhat said that it was still on the drawing board, but apparently the Japanese are WAY further along than that! They just finished their second limited flight test! Kick ass. Here's a website.
Go Japan!!! Any country that is capable of showing up the USA, is okay in my book!
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Soon to be available at a grocery store checkout counter near you, I imagine.
Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
quote:Originally posted by MC Infinity: Go Japan!!! Any country that is capable of showing up the USA, is okay in my book!
Exactly my thought. You know when a company has little/no competition that company can do whatever it wants to its customers and there is not a damn thing they can do about it. I think it's the same case with countries.......
[ July 09, 2001: Message edited by: MIB ]
Posted by Masao (Member # 232) on :
Cool! I live here in J-Land, but this wasn't covered in any of the crappy English-languages papers that I read. Thanks!
Posted by Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :
Cool, if you got a remote control for it you could play "Lander"!
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
Hmm. I was totally unaware of this development in Japanese aerospace. All I knew was that the Japanese had a reuseable space plane in development on the drawing board, but that it never got off the ground, so to speak. Of course, I had heard the same thing about the Chinese, but no real reliable information was forthcoming with that other than the Shen Zhou space capsule project.
Kick ass. Here's a website.