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BID : ANS-032.07
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Subj: Japanese Manned Spaceflight
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 032.07 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. February 1, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-032.07
Spurred by China's success in its first-ever manned space flight, Japan
plans a drastic review of its space policy and will consider launching
manned space trips as well, a report said Thursday.
The government will "consider realising a manned space flight by a
Japanese astronaut at an early time", a Japanese daily said in its
evening edition, without indicating a timeframe.
The government's science and technology council, chaired by the Prime
Minister, is expected to agree to draw up a new policy by mid-2004, the
mass-circulation daily said without citing sources.
Japan had decided to review its space policy primarily because China
had succeeded in putting a man into space last October and US President
George Bush announced this month a US return to the moon as early as
2015, it said.
But the daily added some government officials are cautious towards
manned flight programmes as they would need to boost the space
development budget.
[ANS thanks Space Daily for the above information.]
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