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NASA

Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 3, 2021
New NASA missions will study Venus, a world overlooked for decades
After numerous missions by the United States and the Soviet Union to explore it in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, attention shifted elsewhere.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 26, 2021
China should celebrate its Mars success by sharing
The propaganda value of a landing on another planet, as the Communist Party prepares to celebrate its centenary, is not lost on Beijing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 8, 2021
Heads up! A used Chinese rocket is tumbling back to Earth this weekend.
The chances of it hitting a populated area are small, but not zero. That has raised questions about how the country's space program designs its missions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 25, 2021
As satellites proliferate, telescopes go dark
Satellites reflect sunlight, causing bright trails across the night sky, which in turn can impede crucial observations or corrupt astronomical data.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 20, 2021
NASA’s Mars helicopter completes first flight on another world
Like the first flight of an airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright, the flight did not go far or last long, but it showed what could be done.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 17, 2021
NASA says SpaceX wins $2.9 billion contract for moon lander, with 2024 goal
NASA said Friday it has awarded billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's private space company SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the moon as early as 2024, picking it over Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics Inc.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 9, 2021
NASA-SpaceX launch of next International Space Station crew delayed
The next launch window for a NASA crew to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX rocketship has been pushed back by at least another two days, to no earlier than April 22, the space agency said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 23, 2021
Mars rover sends home movie of daredevil descent to landing on red planet
NASA scientists on Monday unveiled first-of-a-kind home movies from last week's daredevil Mars rover landing, vividly showing its supersonic parachute inflation over the red planet and a rocket-powered hovercraft lowering the science lab on wheels to the surface.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 19, 2021
NASA's astrobiology rover Perseverance makes historic Mars landing
Mission managers at NASA burst into applause, cheers and fist-bumps as radio beacons signaled that the six-wheeled rover had survived its perilous descent.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 26, 2020
Trump leaves a mess behind at NASA
President-elect Joe Biden needs to focus on what has made the U.S. space program distinctive in recent years: the power of private competition.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Dec 10, 2020
Hayabusa2's successful mission may help us reclaim our own past
Science now allows us to pluck pieces of our history from asteroids as they whiz by.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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