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H-IIA launch Japan's lunar probe SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon)
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NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.
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July, 2006, Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121. See attached for full caption information.
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Aichi Prefecture, Japan - July 2, 2018. Imperial Hotel at The Museum MEIJI-MURA in Japan
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Still from the film Deliverance, 1919. The story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. View shows Keller in the cockpit/front seat of an airplane.
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New space race infographic between China, India, and Japan. Asian space race, space exploration
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Indian hijras participate in a religious procession in Gandhinagar, India, some 30 kilometers from Ahmedabad, on March 22, 2017. Hijra is a term used in South Asia which refers to transgender individuals who are born male. (gender identity, gender expression)
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The impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson, illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 28, 1868.
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6 Small Kingdoms of the World
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Pluto. Crop of asset: 172304/IC code: pluto0010 at 270 degrees. The Changing Faces of Pluto. Most detailed view to date of the entire surface of the dwarf planet Pluto, constructed from multiple NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs 2002-03.
Wee Worlds: Our 5 (Official) Dwarf Planets
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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency: References & Edit History

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Media added. Mar 13, 2024
Corrected display issue. Mar 20, 2023
Modified link of Web site: Official Site of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Oct 11, 2022
Changed “manned” to “crewed.” Added material about NASDA's first astronauts and the Hayabusa mission. Apr 30, 2020
Add new Web site: NASA - International Space Station - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Education Payload Observation 1 (JAXA_EPO_1). Aug 29, 2011
Add new Web site: Official Site of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Aug 29, 2011
New article added. Dec 02, 2010
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