Toyohiro Akiyama, Japan’s Chain-Smoking ‘Space Antihero,’ Dies at 84
A journalist, he was the first Japanese person to enter space, joining a Soviet crew as part of a spectacular $35 million ratings stunt in 1990.
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A journalist, he was the first Japanese person to enter space, joining a Soviet crew as part of a spectacular $35 million ratings stunt in 1990.
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Read MoreScientists are still working out the precise cause of the disaster in Nepal, but one thing seems certain: The risk of such events is increasing.
Read MoreAstronomers will use data collected by Roman’s wide, deep gaze to study the dark universe and hunt for new worlds.
Read MoreNASA’s latest offering to the stars comes from a legacy of great observatories that enabled decades of discovery and unearthed new mysteries about the universe.
Read MoreAt a festival on a disc golf course, on a peninsula in Iceland, waiting for the sky to descend into darkness.
Read MorePeople in the Americas, Africa and Europe will have a chance to see Earth’s shadow create a near-total blood moon.
Read MoreIt would be the rocket company’s second private launch site after Starbase, its headquarters in South Texas.
Read MoreThe policy aims to greatly increase the number of spacecraft launches and re-entries.
Read MoreThe milestone by the private company, LandSpace, could put China closer to challenging SpaceX’s rule in lower-cost spaceflight.
Read MoreA reworking of the spacecraft’s power systems could extend the nearly 50-year-old Voyagers’ exploration of interstellar space into the early 2030s.
Read MoreWe’re sharing photos from yesterday’s total solar eclipse.
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