NEC Corp on Monday expressed satisfaction with Japanese space probe Hayabusa’s return to Earth the previous day after a seven-year voyage. ‘‘It is our great pleasure that we as a manufacturer have been able to contribute to the project,’’ the electronics maker said in a statement.
The Japanese space agency is embarking on a mammoth $2.2 billion project to put humanoid robots on the moon and create an unmanned robot lunar base by 2020, according to Prime Ministers office.
China’s first man that explores outer space reveals, China astronauts eating of dog meat to maintain their strength during the orbit around the earth.
Yang Liwei, 44-year-old military pilot who commanded the mission of Shenzhou Five years in 2003, reveal the menu of a spaceship crew of China in his autobiography entitled The Nine Levels Between Heaven and Earth.
“Many of my friends wanted to know what we eat (in space) and think that the astronauts must have some expensive meals, such as shark’s fin or oysters,” he wrote, as quoted by the Telegraph, Thursday (05/13/2010).
