- Produced by:
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Directed by:
- The Space Poem Chain Compiling Committee (SPCCC)
- Chairperson:
- Haruo Saji (President, Suzuka Junior College)
- Committee members:
- Hiroo Inokuchi (Professor emeritus, Tokyo University)
Yasunori Matogawa (Professors emeritus, JAXA/Director, Kodomo Uchu Mirai Association)
Hideo Nakamura(Director, JAXA Space Education Center)
Junichi Watanabe (Director of the Information Center and Outreach Department at the National Institute of Natural Sciences/NINS National Astronomical Observatory)
- Secretary:
- Tsutomu Yamanaka, Nobukazu Ohnishi (Japan Space Forum)
- Supervisor:
- Ryoko Shindo (Poet)
- Judge:
- Kiwao Nomura (Poet)
- Japanese-English translation:
- Janine Beichman (Professor, Daito Bunka University)
- English-Japanese translation:
- Kiwao Nomura
- Contributions:
- Approximately ten Japanese and foreign poets chosen by Ryoko Shindo, Kiwao Nomura and the SPCCC will submit poems.
- Period:
- October 6, 2010 through March 4, 2011
- Space Poem Chain:
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- 1st poem:
- Soichi Noguchi (Astronauts)
- 2nd poem:
- Mizuki Misumi (Poet)
- 3rd poem:
- Ryoko Shindo (Poet)
- Fourth poem and later:
- Public applications and contributions will be compiled and edited.
- Deadline for public applications:
- Will be announced on the website.
- Announcement:
- Friday on the week of the deadline in principle.
- Photo Supervisor:
- Junichi Watanabe (Director of the Information Center and Outreach Department at the NINS National Astronomical Observatory)
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