Article: (News Focus) S. Korea opens 'space era' with Naro center's completion.

SEOUL, June 10 (Yonhap) -- With the completion of its new space center, South Korea hopes to lead advances not only in exploration but also in defense and commercial technologies, experts here said Wednesday. The Naro Space Center is at the heart of an ambitious program that aims to send an unmanned probe to the moon in the next 20 years and make South Korea the 13th country in the world to send a satellite into space from its own territory. Seoul has poured roughly US$248 million into the project since 2003. The facility, which officially opens on Thursday, occupies 5.07 million square meters of land on the southern coast. "If the launch scheduled for July 30 is ...

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