Hope and vainglory: space shuttles. (U.S., Japan plan new reusable space vehicles)
Economist (US), The, July, 1996
Vice Pres Gore announced NASA's plans for the generation reusable launch vehicle, Lockheed Martin's VentureStar, in July 1996. In the same month, Japan began the automatic-landing flight experiment (AFLEX) testing phase of its HOPE space shuttle. Lockheed's contract is worth nearly $1 billion.
TOKYO
MANY Japanese, when they are asked to describe their country's relationship with America, liken it to one between a smaller and a bigger brother. If so, there is plenty of sibling rivalry involved, especially in technology. In the week that Japan planned to test-fly a model of its proposed space shuttle, HOPE, it was trumped. Al Gore, America's vice president, smothered any headlines that the experiment might have made outside Japan by announcing his own country's...
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