Japan quietly gives up most of its space program

[Taro Toporific]

Japan Scales Down Troubled Space Program
Scotland on Sunday
Japan is planning a major scale-back of its troubled space program by focusing on smaller satellites and relying more on other countries for launches....the current satellite program is too complex -- and have linked its numerous failures to a combination of the long time needed to develop a satellite and an overly ambitious launch schedule...

[Buraku]

U.S. Losing Unofficial Space Race, Congressmen Say
http://www.space.com/news/ft_060331_nasa_china_congress.html
WASHINGTON - Some congressmen believe the United States and China are in an unacknowledged space race that this country could lose if it doesn't spend more money on the civilian space program.

The communist nation's military runs its manned space program, employs an estimated 200,000 workers and has set a goal of putting an astronaut on the moon by 2017.

By contrast, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is a civilian government program with a limited budget that directly employs fewer than 20,000 civil servants and has lost the commanding lead it once held over the rest of the world in human space exploration.

[homesweethome]

[Buraku]

Japan will capitalize and improve on any commercial space plane tourist business that can be gotten. Just let the FG's do all the hard basic costly research, then get on the band wagon. That's the future of Japan's space program.

The Japan program is still behind Rutan
Even the technical skills of Rutan and business skills of Branson will only be able to reach space for a few seconds

I fear this is another sub-orbital comedy trip, and it isn't going very far or very fast unless your trying to hit a near-by nation
http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14660
that test means it wouldn't even match up to the Russia's old Gagarin launch ( 1950s or 1961 )

Maybe it could one day be used for supersonic missiles to hit PearlHarbor/California....*ahem*...*cough*...err Sorry I meant to blast those shitty Korean fuckers

I hear both the North and South Koreans are also launching a scud missile program...*ahem*..*cough*...er I mean space program




South Korean scud missiles....*cough* I mean space-planes
http://www.astronautix.com/graphics/z/zksrlvs1.jpg

North Korea's test of nuking Tokyo but missed....*ahem*...sorry what I meant to say was N.Korea's test of exploring Pluto and Jupiter
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/01/northkorea.missile/