[FPSPACE] FW: [JAXA:0221] "AKATSUKI" Message Campaign - Deadline for accepting messages extended

Tue Dec 22 06:20:03 EST 2009


 
> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:13:28 +0900
> From: jaxapr at jaxa.jp
> Subject: [JAXA:0221] "AKATSUKI" Message Campaign - Deadline for accepting messages extended
> To: ljk4 at msn.com
> 
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> *** JAXA MAIL SERVICE ***
> Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
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> "We will deliver your message to the brightest star Venus"
> -- "AKATSUKI" Message Campaign --
> Deadline for accepting messages extended
> 
> December 17, 2009 (JST)
> Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
> 
> The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been holding the 
> "AKATSUKI Message Campaign" in order to enhance people's interest in 
> Venus and to make people feel familiar with the Venus Climate Orbiter 
> "AKATSUKI," which is scheduled to be launched by the H-IIA Launch 
> Vehicle in Japan Fiscal Year 2010.
> We have been receiving many messages so far, and we would like to 
> extend the deadline by two weeks for accepting more names and messages.
> The following is updated information on the campaign. Please send us a
> message during your New Year holidays.
> 
> 1. New deadline
> We will accept your entries until January 10 (Sun.), 2010
> (The deadline was originally December 25, 2009.)
> 
> 2. Current status of received messages
> Along with messages sent by individuals via the Internet, we have been
> accepting messages from groups including schools and classes. 
> Scientific museums are also putting together messages from people. We 
> have also received messages from some famous people such as Astronaut 
> Koichi Wakata and his Space Shuttle crew (STS-127, Commander Mark 
> Polansky, Mission Specialists Astronaut David Wolf and Thomas 
> Marshburn), singer Ayaka Hirahara, cartoonists Reiji Matsumoto and 
> Chuya Koyama (serial cartoon "Ucyu-Kyodai," meaning Space Brothers, in
> the magazine "Morning" from Kodansha). 
> 
> 3. How to send a message
> 1) Via the Internet
> We are accepting messages from individuals only through the Internet. 
> (Please note that postal mail, facsimile, and e-mail are not 
> acceptable.)
> English website:http://www.jaxa.jp/event/akatsuki/index_e.html
> 
> You will be able to download a "certificate of participation to the 
> campaign" when you send your name and/or message. It will be sent and 
> shown only once, so if you want to keep it, please click the 
> certificate to download it.
> 
> * Only a name (without a message) is also acceptable.
> * You can send a message in Japanese characters (Hiragana, Kanji, and 
> Katakana) as well as using numbers and/or Roman letters. However, 
> some letters (such as half-sized Katakana) or some PC specific 
> letters may not be properly encoded on our side. Please refrain from
> sending such letters.
> * The International Year of Astronomy 2009 Japan Committee will be in 
> charge of accepting names and messages, counting them, and 
> protecting your private information.
> * Your message may be used on our Web site, leaflet, and/or magazines 
> for the purpose of public affairs and promotion. Copyright of the 
> messages basically belong to JAXA.
> 
> 2) Those who are a group with a dozen members or more in Japan (such 
> as a school, kindergarten, company, residents' association, hobby club,
> science museum, or event organization team) can send a message via 
> conventional postal mail. (A group with less than 10 members can also 
> send a message.) Please write your message as large and clearly as 
> possible within a limited paper size (A4). We also accept 
> illustrations, but please remember that everything will be carved in 
> black and white. Send your group name and a message on an A4 size 
> paper (if your paper size is different, please make a contraction 
> /enlargement copy to make it size A4) and write the following on the 
> backside of the paper: the number of people in your group, the address,
> name, age, gender, telephone number, e-mail address of a 
> representative of the group. (If no e-mail address is available, 
> please send a postcard for a reply with your address and name and a 
> 50-yen stamp on the front side). Send your message (and a reply 
> postcard, if necessary) to the following address.
> 
> JAXA ISAS "AKATSUKI" Campaign Office
> 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa 229-8510 
> 
> * We will e-mail you (or send a reply postcard back in the case you 
> send it to us) to let you know that we have received your message.
> * We will not send you back your message. Your message and 
> illustration may be used on our Web site, leaflets, and/or magazines
> for the purpose of public affairs and promotion. (Please refrain 
> from sending any information, messages and/or illustrations that you
> do not want us to publish, such as personal information.) Copyright 
> of the messages and illustrations basically belong to JAXA.
> * Please be aware that messages will be scaled down by a large 
> percentage when they are printed on an aluminum plate to be aboard 
> the satellite.
> * JAXA (ISAS) will be in charge of accepting names and messages from 
> groups, counting them, and protecting your private information.
> 
> For inquiries about this campaign
> JAXA Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) 
> Research Promotion Office
> Tel.042-759-8008 (or +81-42-759-8008)
> 
> (Reference) Venus Climate Orbiter "AKATSUKI"
> http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/12/20091217_akatsuki_e.html#ref
> 
> 
> This page URL:
> http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/12/20091217_akatsuki_e.html
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