Toyota invests in rocket startup
In a positive sign that Japan’s rocket industry is beginning to join the private sector, Toyota yesterday announced that it is investing $44 million in the rocket startup Interstellar Technologies.
Interstellar had been more visible about five years ago, and then disappeared. I figured it had died having run out of cash. It appears it is coming back now in Japan.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
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In a positive sign that Japan’s rocket industry is beginning to join the private sector, Toyota yesterday announced that it is investing $44 million in the rocket startup Interstellar Technologies.
Interstellar had been more visible about five years ago, and then disappeared. I figured it had died having run out of cash. It appears it is coming back now in Japan.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Remember that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries makes the H-II series rockets, that were originally derived from the Delta-III series of rockets. Mitsubishi is big like General Motors and has many subsidiaries.
Toyota is teaching Interstellar Technologies manufacturing. I like it. I always wondered why Japan never pursued space as much. I knew Japan had some problems with the H-IIA rocket and the government slashed funding to their HOPE mini-shuttle. Maybe free enterprises, like Interstellar, can accelerate their space program, like it did in the U.S.A.
I wonder if there is something cultural going on…China– even with the wrong economic system–is beating the pants off them–yes they cheat and hack–but that proves they have a hunger for space and won’t let anything stop them.
I really don’t understand how Japan hasn’t developed spaceflight more than they have–graying population can’t explain everything.
You either have a commitment to space or you don’t.