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Japan Space Agency Plans Shuttle: It plans to start developing an unmanned shuttle craft next year that will ferry supplies to and from the U.S.-led space station Freedom early in the next century, the National Space Development Agency of Japan announced. It will submit its proposals Thursday to the Science and Technology Agency, the first of several steps toward obtaining the several billion dollars needed before the craft flies.
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