If everything goes as planned, then on Tuesday, April 25th, ispace’s Hakuto-R Mission 1 will land on the moon. If successful, ispace will become only the fourth entity to successfully land a craft on the moon. They will follow in the footsteps of the Soviet Union’s Luna 9 in February 1966, the US’s Surveyor 1 in June 1966, and China’s Chang’e 3 in December 2013. The big difference between this lander and previous ones, is that it will be a private company doing it.
I am a big
supporter of lunar exploration, so to mark this latest attempt, I will have a
sale on two of my ebooks. From Monday
April 24th, through Friday April 28th, you will be able to grab my collection
of essays The Moon Before Mars: Why returning to the moon makes more sense than rushing off to Mars, and my collection of stories all set on the moon A Cabin Under a Cloudy Sea and other stories for just the price of a
click.
Wishing ispace the best of luck.
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