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JAXA seeks to bodily go, and to go it alone
Daily Yomiuri ^ | 03/17/05

Posted on 03/17/2005 5:41:44 PM PST by KevinDavis

The Yomiuri Shimbun

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has decided in its long-term plan to 2025 to work toward manned space activities on its own and develop a hypersonic liquid hydrogen-fueled transport capable of crossing the Pacific Ocean in two hours at Mach 5.

The plan was approved by a panel of external advisers Wednesday and will be officially approved later this month.

(Excerpt) Read more at yomiuri.co.jp ...


TOPICS: Japan; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: japan; space
I wish them the best of luck..
1 posted on 03/17/2005 5:41:51 PM PST by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 03/17/2005 5:42:27 PM PST by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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Just another excuse to funnel tax-payer Yen into a losing government program. They'd be better served teaming up with Boeing or another foreign company with a track record of successes.

Japan * BONG *

3 posted on 03/17/2005 5:52:39 PM PST by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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To: KevinDavis

Very bod move.


4 posted on 03/17/2005 5:55:07 PM PST by Rex Anderson
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To: KevinDavis

I disagree with the other posts on this.

The Japanese are confronting the transitions that the US had to make in the late '70s and '80s. Namely, moving from a manufacturing base to a service base to a high-tech base.

They are smart enough to look into the future, as we have done here, and understand that survival requires bold moves.

The tea leaves say: "Gotta get off the planet!"

I'm thinking you will definitely see a lot of government involvment in this program.

But then again, the Japanese have always been more of fascist (that's strictly an economic term, used in it's original context of fascisti economic theory) economy that enjoys a high degree of private and government cooperation.


5 posted on 03/18/2005 4:48:23 AM PST by Al Gator
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To: KevinDavis

It's about time the Japanese got their space program in gear. They should have been competitive with NASA and way ahead of Russia all along. Where the heck have they been, in a vegetative state?


6 posted on 03/18/2005 10:44:29 AM PST by RightWhale (Please correct if cosmic balance requires.)
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