Elon Musk recently shared a video of Japanese engineer and astronaut Koichi Wakata playing a game of solo baseball while floating in microgravity inside the JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration ...

Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata recently shared an out-of-this-world moment aboard the International Space Station (ISS), capturing a fun and unique twist on America's favourite pastime.

Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata said he felt great after his latest 5-month stay aboard the International Space Station, adding that despite numerous difficulties during the mission he felt a ...

Using the Space Shuttle Discovery's 50 foot robotic arm, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata plucked a 2,700 pound (1,215 kilogram) docking port from the orbiter's cargo bay. With spacewalkers ...

Elon Musk shared a video of Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata playing baseball alone in the International Space Station, captivating social media. The footage shows Wakata pitching, hitting ...

Axiom also hired Koichi Wakata, a former JAXA astronaut, in April 2024 as an astronaut and chief technical officer for the Asia-Pacific region. At the Spacetide conference in Tokyo in July 2024 ...

astronaut Koichi Wakata will travel together with Kikina aboard the Crew Dragon spaceship to the orbital outpost, the statement says. On July 15, Roscosmos announced that it had signed a deal on ...

as well as the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s astronaut Koichi Wakata MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. Russia’s only female cosmonaut Anna Kikina will fly to the International Space Station (ISS ...

Rounding out the crew from Japan’s space agency JAXA was Koichi Wakata, 59, a robotics expert ... consisting of three Americans and an Italian astronaut - as well as two Russians and the NASA ...

Astronaut Onishi Takuya has taken charge as the third Japanese commander of the International Space Station. A commercial ...