This engineer designs a vehicle to inhabit the Moon

When Akane Imamura found a job for Ispace, she thought it was a hoax. The Tokyo startup was looking for an engineer to help develop a miniature moon vehicle and it seemed too good to be true. But the publication was in fact authentic, so he requested it. She joined the company in 2017 as an engineer of spacecraft structures.

At that time, Ispace was in the final stages of the competition for the Google Lunar X Award, which promised to award a total of 30 million dollars to lunar missions financed with private funds. That offer expired last year, ...