A Japanese astronaut will become the first non-American ever to land on the moon, Biden announced Wednesday during a news ...

US President Joe Biden revealed during a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida that a Japanese ...

Japan’s space program will take a giant leap forward as the country is set to land its first astronaut on the moon as early as 2028 in a U.S.-led mission. At a meeting in Washington on April 10 ...

Japan has already decided to join the U.S.-led Artemis program aimed at exploring the moon and landing an astronaut there in or after 2025. The last time a human has reached the moon’s surface ...

Performing are Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and STS-130 crew members Terry Virts, Kay Hire, and Steve Robinson. Video: NASA (02:25) Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing Our ...

But what exactly are the risks? Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai this week may have briefly grabbed news headlines by announcing he had stretched a staggering 9cm (3.5in) in just three weeks ...

Japan will develop a lunar rover, while NASA will offer Japanese astronauts the opportunity to land on the Moon's surface. How significant is the Japan-US space exploration alliance? And how is ...

A possibility for a Japanese astronaut to land on the Moon is to be determined through consultations in the future TOKYO, November 18. /TASS/. Japan plans to extend its involvement with the ...

Moghbeli previously shared what it’s like to to cut hair on the ISS with a time-lapse video of her trimming Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa’s hair. “Up here on the space station ...

NEW YORK, February 3. /TASS/. NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata completed the spacewalk they carried out Thursday in order to prepared for the installation of iROSA solar ...

Perhaps the best public view of the suit came in 2021, when Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi gave a video tour of the outfit, with all its clever tricks, when aboard the space station.

NASA - or SpaceX - could use cutting-edge virtual reality gear to train allied astronauts stretching ... [+] from the U.S. to Europe and Japan in advance of and across the 2020s Moon landings.