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After China and India now Japan joins exploration race in space, too. Being one of the most rooted aerospace agencies in the world JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) officially announced on Friday that by 2030 the Japan astronauts will set their foot on the Moon.

JAXA Spokesman who talked to AFP said that plans for sending human to the Moon will come true within a international partnership frame. According to this, at first JAXA will join to NASA's mission which will start in 2025 (Installing space station inside Moon's orbit) (Deep Space Getaway). This space station which is planned to be used as a jumping point for manned missions to Mars by NASA, will mean much more different things for JAXA. Helping Deep Space Getaway mission with Japanese Technologies, JAXA is aiming to send first Japanese astronauts to the Moon with the help of this station.

Though agency, didn't give much details about mission for now, it is stating that the mission will be dealed with every detail in an event that is going happen in March 2018. If it happens this assertive mission will be the first deep aerospace mission to happen in Japan. So far JAXA had sent 12 astronauts to aerospace but they couldn't passed beyond the International Aerospace Station.