[FPSPACE] Japanese goverment changes policy on manned space missions

[Morris Jones]

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20090306p2a00m0na004000c.html

The government has decided to reverse the nation's policy against
independent manned space missions and moon exploration, it has been
learned.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) wants "to have the
technology for independent manned missions," President Keiji Tachikawa
announced last month, in a reversal of Japan's policy against manned
space exploration....


More at the above link.


Morris





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