var items = new Array (new ImageMetaData('Japan Exploration Agency\'s (JAXA) H-2A rocket, carrying Japan\'s first lunar orbiter "Kaguya", launches from the Tanegashima Space Center on the small island of Tanegashima off the southern tip of Kyushu Island, southern Japan 14 September 2007. Japan\'s first lunar orbiter successfully launched on the largest mission to investigate the moon since the US Apollo programme began nearly four decades ago, the space agency said. "We successfully launched the rocket and released the orbiter from the rocket," said Eriko Sunada, a spokeswoman for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in Tokyo.   AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)','http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Photos/070913/070913_japanese_launch_vmed_10p.jpg','12:52 a.m. ET, 9/14/07','Str / AFP - Getty Images','AFP - Getty Images',20767003));