20081020

M-R2D2 TO CELEBRATE THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF MALAYSIAN ASTRONAUT PROGRAM


Since STS-MC has been benefiting from the Malaysian national astronaut program, it is celebrating the first anniversary of the program this month of October. Since October last year, the astronaut has been campaigning and promoting the program to the public. However, STS-MC appears to be the most obvious community, which benefit the most from the campaign and promotion, because unintentionally, the astronaut has been promoting space tourism.

Therefore, STS-MC is celebrating the first anniversary of the astronaut program by launching a program called M-R2D2, stands for Malaysian Research for Rocketplane Design & Development with Swiss Propulsion Laboratory (SPL) as the partner.

Please refer to www.spl.ch/ and click on News. You can read a very brief description of M-R2D2 program and view a related photograph.

The photograph on the topmost page shows from left to right: Anwar Taufeek Ismail (ED of STS-MC), Adrian Mettauer (PR Chief of SPL), Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin (CM of Perak), Norul Ridzuan Zakaria (F&P of STS-MC) and Jalaluddin Abu (CEO of STS-MC).

M-R2D2 is also mentioned on the 2nd page of http://www.spl.ch/about/factsheet_v0.7_2007-11-05.pdf

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