For the first time in a government space agency in the world, JAXA has scrapped the academic requirement for astronauts. By no longer requiring prospective astronauts to have educational ...

NASA and SpaceX are pushing up Crew-10’s launch date by reusing a previously flown Dragon spacecraft, Endurance. This ...

only Kibo has its own storage compartment," says JAXA. Linked round-the-clock with teams at the Tsukuba Space Center, the module's assembly took three Space Shuttle missions, beginning in 2007.

I want to contribute to the developments in space, which is in a period of transition." In the JAXA announcement, Norishige Kanai, the head of the astronauts group at JAXA, said, “I’m truly ...

"Big Jon" McBride, who piloted space shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G ... "I was just speaking with some friends in Japan ...