JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

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September 8, 2005 (JST)

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will hold a meeting to hear a report from Astronaut Noguchi and his fellow STS-114 crewmembers who will visit Japan. The meeting will take place in Tokyo and his home town, Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, under the following schedule.

1. Meeting Outline

(1) Meeting in Tokyo (General Mission Debriefing)
Hosted by: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Date & Time: 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on October 1 (Saturday), 2005 (Japan Standard Time, JST)
Location: ZEPP TOKYO (Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo)
Admission: Free
Participants have to be older than junior high school students.
1,200 will be invited, and, seats will be allocated through a draw.

(2) Meeting in Chigasaki (Mission Debriefing at Home Town)
Hosted by: Chigasaki City Govenment and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Supported by: Kanagawa Prefectural Govenment
Date & Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on October 2 (Sunday), 2005 (JST)
Location: Chigasaki City Cultural Hall (Chigasaki, Kanagawa Pref.)
Admission: Free
Participants have to be older than elementary school students
1,000 people will be invited, and, seats will be allocated through a draw.

2. How to Apply

Please follow the instructions below. If we have more applications than our scheduled number of participants, we will carry out a draw. The results of the draw will be revealed only to the lucky winners by sending an invitation card to those who are selected to participate. The cards will be dispatched no earlier than September 28, 2005 (JST).

Applications can be made either by a prepaid reply postcard or through the Internet. Only one entry per person for each venue is acceptable. Please be aware that, should you make multiple entries, all of your applications will be invalidated.

+ Applications by prepaid return postcard
Please follow the instructions below. Four (4) people can apply per one prepaid return postcard.
(For elementary school children, a guardian is required.)

1. Name, address (with a zip code), telephone No. of participant (Please write only the name of the representative of all participants here, if a group of people apply on one postcard.)
2. Name, age, and occupation (or school grade) of other participants (up to three more people), if you are a group.
3. Question to Astronaut Noguchi (We plan to have a question and answer session during the meetings.)
4. On the front side of the postcard for the reply, write the name and address (with a zip code) of the representative.

Send the postcard to:
Please note that the address is different according to the meeting location. You cannot apply for two meeting sites using one card.


[Tokyo Meeting]
JAXA "Tokyo Meeting"
2-1-1 Sengen, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305-8505, Japan

[Chigasaki Meeting]
JAXA "Chigasaki Meeting"
2-1-1 Sengen, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305-8505, Japan

Deadline: September 22 (Thursday), 2005 (JST) (postmark of Sep. 22, 2005)


+ Applications through the Internet
We accept applications through the Internet. Please access
http://sts-114.jaxa.jp/
and fill in an application form and send it to us.

Deadline: 5:00 p.m. September 22 (Thursday), 2005 (JST)


* The information we will receive from this application form will be used only for the purpose of this meeting.

* For more information
Mission Debriefing Team, Human Space Systems and Utilization Program Office, JAXA
2-1-1 Sengen, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305-8505, Japan
TEL: +81-29-868-3074

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