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Japan Plans for Private Sector to be Involved in Next Space Station; JAXA Will Not Be Point of Contact for ISS Successor
According to the draft, “the private sector will have such responsibilities as managing [the new space station], and JAXA will support its use.” JAXA is currently responsible to the management and ...
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JAXA opens astronaut slots for those with no academic record
For the first time in a government space agency in the world, JAXA has scrapped the academic requirement for astronauts. By no longer requiring prospective astronauts to have educational ...
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Record number of people apply to JAXA to be astronauts
JAXA said on April 5 that the number rocketed up by 4.3 times from the last time it recruited astronauts in 2008, when it was 963. The agency no longer requires prospective astronauts to have ...