Japan's space agency has said its unmanned spacecraft is on the Moon, but it is still "checking its status".More details will be given at a news conference, officials said.If Slim landed successfully, Japan would become the fifth country to accomplish the feat after the United States, the Soviet Union, China and India.As the spacecraft descended, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's mission control said that everything was going as planned and later said that Slim was on the lunar surface.Bu

Japan's space agency has said its unmanned spacecraft is on the Moon, but it is still "checking its status".More details will be given at a news conference, officials said.If Slim landed successfully, Japan would become the fifth country to accomplish the feat after the United States, the Soviet Union, China and India.As the spacecraft descended, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's mission control said that everything was going as planned and later said that Slim was on the lunar surface.But there was no mention of whether the landing was successful.Mission control kept repeating that it was "checking its status" and that more information would be given at a news conference.