a Japanese will be the first non-American to land on the Moon, announces Joe Biden

One more nationality on our natural satellite. A Japanese astronaut will be the first non-American to land on the Moon, as part of an American space mission, Joe Biden declared on Wednesday April 10. “Two Japanese astronauts will take part in future American missions, and one of them will be the first non-American to land on the Moon”announced the American president, during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

The latter, on a state visit to Washington, greeted “a tremendous success in the space sector”, also confirming that Japan would provide the United States with a lunar rover, an astromobile-type space exploration vehicle. The United States plans to return to the Moon as part of its Artemis program. The Artemis 3 mission, the first to send astronauts back to the Moon, is planned for 2026. It is also planned to send the first woman and the first person of color to the Moon, when the Apollo program took 12 men there. Americans, all white, in 1969.