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Student teams from Malaysia and Thailand performed their experiment aboard a jet performing parabolic manuvers.
KUOA staff travelled to Indonesia and Malaysia for scientific and technical arrangements.
The Asian “Kibo” Mission Planning Task Force of APRSAF SEU WG has examined proposals submitted by students for the parabolic flight experiment, and consequently selected two teams for the upcoming flight operation this month.
The seeds returned from the International Space Station in the SSAF2010-2011 program have been distributed to students of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. The students are now caring their valued seedlings. Excellent reports on their extraordinary observations are expected before long.
JAXA invites proposals for Try Zero-G 2012 campaign in cooperation with space agencies in the Asia-Pacific region.
Satoshi Furukawa, who has been onboard the ISS as EXP28/29 crew, took the photos of Thailand after the flood. ≫See pictures (Photo credit: JAXA/NASA)
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