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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
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2020
Astronaut Noguchi says SpaceX ship offered 'best' flight to ISS
The Japanese scientist is one of only three people known to have launched in three different types of spacecraft.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2020
NASA chief touts role of Japan's Soichi Noguchi in upcoming SpaceX mission
'I look forward to all the amazing things that Soichi Noguchi is going to do on the International Space Station,' NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 10, 2020
Japanese astronaut hopes upcoming mission will pave way for 'new future'
Soichi Noguchi will be among four astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon capsule to be launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 3, 2020
Tests on mice in space uncover protein that may combat aging
Experiments on mice that were taken to the International Space Station have shown an internal protein has the potential to help slow the aging process, according to a joint study by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Tohoku University.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 17, 2020
Musk sees ‘fighting chance’ for Starship mission to Mars in 2024
SpaceX founder Elon Musk is "80%-90% confident” that the company’s massive new Starship rocket will reach orbit next year and said there’s a chance it will be ready for an uncrewed cargo mission to Mars in 2024.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 15, 2020
SpaceX to launch satellite tracking rising sea levels
The mission will be to track how the accelerating rise of sea levels is changing coastlines, threatening the habitat of more than a third of the world's population.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 30, 2020
Japanese and U.S. astronauts 'ready to fly' in Oct. 31 SpaceX mission
The upcoming mission will mark the first in a series of regular, rotational flights to the International Space Station by SpaceX's new crew transportation system.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 20, 2020
The final frontier? Firms to develop cosmetics for use in outer space by 2023
They said CosmoSkin aims to create cosmetics that feel comfortable on the skin even in the extremely dry, zero-gravity conditions of space.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 2, 2020
NASA astronauts riding SpaceX capsule poised for splashdown
The two NASA astronauts who rode to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's new Crew Dragon are heading home for a Sunday splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, capping a two-month voyage in space that marked NASA's first crewed mission from home soil in nine years.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 17, 2020
Space exploration’s next frontier: Remote-controlled robonauts
As Japan’s second female astronaut to fly up in the Space Shuttle Discovery, Naoko Yamazaki didn’t expect to spend a quarter of her time dusting, feeding mice and doing other menial jobs.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 28, 2020
SpaceX wins NASA award to supply lunar space station
NASA on Friday picked a new space capsule from Elon Musk's SpaceX to ferry cargo and supplies to the agency's planned lunar space station, a crucial building block to its goals to build a permanent post on the moon and mount future missions to Mars.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 8, 2020
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has 'critical software defects,' NASA finds
NASA is reviewing Boeing's software engineering, and it doesn't like what it sees.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2020
Japanese billionaire Maezawa pulls out of dating show that promised the moon
Japanese fashion billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has pulled out of a documentary on his search for a girlfriend to travel with him on a voyage around the moon aboard Elon Musk's SpaceX, citing "mixed feelings" about the project.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 13, 2020
Former Zozo fashion retailer Yusaku Maezawa seeks girlfriend for 2023 SpaceX voyage
Call it "The Bachelor: Lunar Edition."
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 21, 2019
Boeing's Starliner astronaut capsule fails key test of reaching space station
Boeing Co.'s new astronaut capsule failed on Friday to climb high enough in orbit to reach the International Space Station, cutting short a critical unmanned test mission in the embattled aerospace giant's race to send humans to the outpost.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 20, 2019
Boeing faces huge test with Friday's launch of Starliner to ISS
NASA's effort to resume flying American astronauts on American spacecraft — something that hasn't happened since the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011 — faces a major test this weekend.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2019
Elon Musk returns to testify in defamation trial over 'pedo guy' tweets
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk returned to court on Wednesday to resume testifying at a trial to decide whether he defamed a British diver whom the Silicon Valley billionaire called "pedo guy" on Twitter.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 29, 2019
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space tourism venture achieves NYSE debut liftoff
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. became the first space-tourism business to go public as it began trading Monday on the New York Stock Exchange.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 28, 2019
Secretive U.S. military spaceplane lands in Florida after record-long two-year orbital flight
The Pentagon's secretive X-37B spaceplane landed in Florida on Sunday after a record-long orbital flight lasting more than two years, the U.S. Air Force said, capping the latest test mission for an array of military technologies.

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