Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has expressed his desire to see more collaborations in aerospace science and research between Malaysia and Japan. He said the current commendable relations between Tsukuba Space Centre of the Japan Space Exploration Agency and aerospace research-based agencies in Malaysia should be further expanded. "Malaysians know this place and they have been here before. Our people have visited this place...they already have cooperation," he told Malaysian journalists after touring today the Tsukuba Space Centre here. Abdullah also visited the center's spacecraft integration and test building, space station test building and space station operations facility, the Malaysian news agency "Bernama" reported. He said the Government would give its support to further promote aerospace cooperation between the two countries. --MORE
