Japan lands on the Moon
This makes Japan the fifth country to achieve the feat
January 20th was a big day for Japan’s space programme. At 00:20 Japan time, Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (slim), a spacecraft owned by JAXA, the Japanese space agency, made its first Moon landing. Japan is the fifth country—following the landing in August by India’s Chandrayaan-3—to have achieved that feat.
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This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “SLIM shady”
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