A Veritable Armada, as You Say?

There's a lot of interest, in part because nassa has this long term investment plan and then there's just a general trend towards a global expansion of the space business. So for example, we have south corea entering the fray. The united arab emirates, which sent a mission to mars that we've covered in the past, is now also contributing a rover to one of the small landers. Japan is planning to have its first lander on the moon. And india, which has attempted a soft landing before and wasn't successful, will try again.