Japan to recruit astronauts in 2021, first intake for 13 years – Japan Today

Japan will recruit a group of potential astronauts in 2021 with an eye on sending them to outer space as part of a U.S.-led lunar exploration project, the first time the nation has conducted an intake since 2008.
Science Minister Koichi Hagiuda said the government will ask for applications around next fall, with Tokyo aiming to have a Japanese national on the moon for the first time in the latter half of the 2020s.
Although Japan has recruited talent in the field approximately every decade or so…

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