Japan 'planning an unmanned moon landing by 2015'

Japan plans to follow up its first lunar satellite orbit this month by sending an unmanned probe to land on the moon by 2015, news reports said today.

The Space Activities Commission of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology decided on Friday to aim to land a Selene-2 probe on the moon’s surface by 2015, Japanese major daily Asahi reported today. Another daily Mainichi carried a similar report.