Japan Airlines wants to blast human culture into space and land it on the moon

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Japan Airlines is partnering with space start-up ispace to transport cultural heritage artifacts to the moon using a lander craft. This initiative aims to preserve items from Earth's climate change, natural disasters, and conflicts.

A partnership between Japan Airlines and a space start-up marks the first step for the carrier to explore diversification beyond Earth-bound aviation, potentially boosting Japan’s ambition to expand its footprint on the moon. The airline is teaming up with ispace to transport items of “precious cultural heritage and human activities” via a lander craft to the moon and protect them from the effects of climate change, natural disasters and conflict on Earth. “In the rapidly changing world, there...