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Hi all<br /><br />I saw this article today and wondered whether they meant that South Korea wanted to land a man on the moon or just send a robot?<br /><br />cheers Peter<br /><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSSEO24596320071120<br /><br />South Korea eyes moon orbiter in 2020, landing 2025<br />Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:34am EST<br /> <br /><br /><br />SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea plans to launch a lunar probe in 2020 and make a moon landing by 2025 under a new space project that will develop indigenous rockets to put satellites into orbit, the Science Ministry said on Tuesday.<br /><br />The lunar probe program will be based on a rocket South Korea is developing at a cost of 3.6 trillion won ($3.9 billion) in the next decade.<br /><br />South Korea is behind regional powers Japan and China in the space race.<br /><br />China became only the third country to launch a man into space on its own rocket in 2003 and put its first lunar probe into orbit in early November.<br /><br />Japan's first lunar probe began orbiting the moon in October, four years behind schedule due to technical glitches.<br /><br />(Reporting by Jack Kim; editing by Jon Herskovitz)<br /><br />($1=925.0 Won)