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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joining the shuttle's seven-member crew on the return flight was astronaut Sandy Magnus, who spent 129 days aboard the space station. In her place, Discovery dropped off Koichi Wakata, who is the ...

I still have some of those flowers. If we NASA astronauts were treated as honored guests, our Japanese crewmate, Koichi Wakata, was a rock star. One evening in Tokyo, we were walking back to our ...

Ovchinin and two other astronauts will depart the ISS aboard ... of the U.S.-led Artemis lunar exploration program. Japan's Koichi Wakata commanded the ISS in 2014 and Akihiko Hoshide in 2021.

Japanese astronaut Onishi Takuya has assumed command ... of the crew and accomplishing the mission. Onishi follows Wakata Koichi and Hoshide Akihiko in the role. They served as ISS commanders ...