not to be a kill-joy, but hasn’t like every jaxa space mission failed to this point? weird too, you’d think space and the japanese would be a perfect fit…

well, the same was true of the u.s. space program circa 1959. practice makes perfect. now suppose the japanese raised a sunken battleship and fitted it out for space flight… naaah…

http://www.desslok.com/main.htm

http://www.japan-toys.com/cgi-bin/us-goods.cgi?id=CM-098