re japanese moon landing in article c kys c r panix com dannyb panix com daniel burstein writes a short story in the newspaper a few days ago made some sort of mention about how the japanese using what sounded like a gravity assist had just managed to crash or crash land a package on the moon the japanese spacecraft hiten crashed on the moon last weekend for the past three years it has made several lunar flybys and even did some aerobraking experiments with earth s atmosphere it was placed in lunar orbit in february and i guess it finally ran out of fuel and was unable to maintain its orbit around the moon ron baalke baalke kelvin jpl nasa gov jet propulsion lab m s telos the aweto from new zealand pasadena ca is part caterpillar and part vegetable
