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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...