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Message: <blockquote data-quote="funfer_fahrer" data-source="post: 10108" data-attributes="member: 2733"><p>MOSCOW: The Russian Federal Space Agency has made an open offer to Malaysia to send a second Angkasawan to the International Space Station in late 2010 or 2011.  Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Malaysia had until 2009 to confirm its undertaking of a second space mission.  He noted that the decision to send another Malaysian to space depended on the benefits such an endeavour would provide and the costs involved, as the next one would have to be funded by the Government.  The first mission, which took Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor to space to conduct scientific experiments onboard the ISS, was funded by Russia under a partial offset deal for Malaysia’s purchase of 18 Sukhoi jets.</p></blockquote><p></p>