Plans to make a manned flight and disembarkation of a man on the Moon announced the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Japan first announced space ambitions that go beyond sending its astronauts to the International Space Station, according to Haytec, citing CNN.

Experts believe that to intensify plans for space exploration, Tokyo forced the unfolding in Asia space race. In other words, Japan is not going to give up the palm to China, which has long announced its ambitious plans for not only landing on the moon, but also building a permanent base there.

What is happening in Asia today is very similar to the space confrontation between the USSR and the USA in the 1950s-1980s. China, in addition to plans to develop the moon, in December last year announced a mission to send an autonomous research module to Mars before the end of 2020. In turn, in the first half of next year, India plans to send to the moon its second automatic research probe. The first Indian vehicle dropped to the surface of the Moon in 2008. India became the fourth country in the world to succeed in the lunar mission, after the US, Russia and China.

As for Japan's plans, then, as CNA spokesman JAXA told, the manned flight to the moon will not be exclusively Japanese. In order to save, Tokyo is going to land a man on the Earth's satellite as part of an international mission.

Recently, the Japanese government reported that it relies on commercial development of near-Earth space by private companies. Japanese space start-ups will provide preferential loans, as well as provide coverage from the budget of damage in the event of spacecraft accidents.