Monday, January 24, 2011

On this Date in 1990...

...Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.

Reportedly, the moon is still uncomfortable about this one since it went a bit deeper than its predecessors.

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