SPACE@NAVI-Kibo WEEKLY NEWS 第188号 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

「きぼう」日本実験棟で2008年8月から実験が行われていた「マランゴニ対流実験（

­第1テーマ）」が2月25日に無事終了しました。今回は代表研究者の西野耕一教授（横­浜国立大学大学院）のコメントを交えながらマランゴニ実験を振り返ります。また日本に­帰国した星出彰彦宇宙飛行士の記者会見やミッション報告会の様子、若田光一宇宙飛行士­の最新情報などもご紹介します。

星出彰彦宇宙飛行士 最新情報
http://iss.jaxa.jp/iss/jaxa_exp/hoshi...

若田光一宇宙飛行士 最新情報
http://iss.jaxa.jp/iss/jaxa_exp/wakat...

マランゴニ実験 紹介ページ
http://iss.jaxa.jp/kiboexp/theme/firs...

宇宙ステーション補給機「こうのとり」シンポジウム開催
http://stage.tksc.jaxa.jp/astrosym/htv/

On 1 October 2003, three organizations were merged to form the new JAXA: Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (or ISAS), the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL), and National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA). JAXA was formed as an Independent Administrative Institution administered by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC).^[5]
Before the merger, ISAS was responsible for space and planetary research, while NAL was focused on aviation research. NASDA, which was founded on 1 October 1969, had developed rockets, satellites, and also built the Japanese Experiment Module. The old NASDA headquarters were located at the current site of the Tanegashima Space Center, on Tanegashima Island, 115 kilometers south of Kyūshū. NASDA also trained Japanese astronauts, who flew with the US Space Shuttles.^[6]
In 2012 new legislation extended JAXA's remit from peaceful purposes only to include some military space development, such as missile early warning systems. Political control of JAXA passed from MEXT to the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office through a new Space Strategy Office.
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