Japan is crossing its collective fingers that it’s about to make history with the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spaceship that’s due to touchdown on the moon tomorrow night. Launched last September, SLIM’s mission is to show off its precision landing capabilities that could change the game for future lunar exploration. The descent towards the moon is set to kick off around 10.30pm tomorrow Aussie Eastern Daylight Savings Time, with touchdown expected about 20 minutes later. If all goes to plan Japan will join Russia, the US, China and India who’ve all managed a soft (aka not a crash) landing on the moon. It’s hard to believe man actually walked on it more than 50 years ago given how tough it’s been to get back. The US company that was hoping to perform the same feat as Japan suffered a major fuel leak after takeoff last week, and other recent attempts by Israel and Japan also failed.