Ayu Yoneda and Makoto Suwa, both newly certified as astronauts by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said in a ...

Japan’s space agency has selected two new candidate astronauts to join its ranks who could even become the first Japanese to set foot on the moon. The science and technology minister announced ...

Japanese scientists just launched the first wooden satellite, called LignoSat, to the International Space Station where it'll ...

On Tuesday, the company’s 31st resupply mission for NASA delivered the world’s first satellite built using wooden parts. More ...

With a 50-year plan of planting trees and building timber houses on the moon and Mars, Doi's team decided to develop a ...

In this April 2021 photo, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi is seen inside an ISS sleep station. Astronauts lean on breathing techniques when they need to manage their feelings in the middle of ...

KYOTO (Reuters) - The world's first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers ... live and work in space forever," said Takao Doi, an astronaut who has flown on the Space Shuttle and ...

Tokyo, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)--Ayu Yoneda and Makoto Suwa, both newly certified as astronauts by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said in a recent interview that they see visiting the ...

A SpaceX rocket carried the world's first wooden satellite, LignoSat, into space at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on ...

The idea originated in 2017 from a question posed by Takao Doi, a Japanese engineer and former NASA astronaut: Could a human society living in space grow trees as renewable building material? “We were ...