Abstract
Japan's ambitious plans for space exploration are being squeezed by efforts to shrink the country's ballooning budget deficit. Last week, an advisory committee to the Science and Technology Agency (STA) signed off on about $700 million in cuts over the next 6 years—most importantly, killing a robotic space plane and reducing the scope of a lunar mission scheduled for 2003. But the committee, whose views reflect a government consensus, protected several planned Earth monitoring missions that are expected to boost the country's status in global environmental research.
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