JAXA Astronaut Activity Report, 2004

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• Mission Specialist Astronaut Candidate Training
  • Astronauts Furukawa, Hoshide, and Yamazaki were interviewed a half year into the Mission Specialist Astronaut Training Course.
• EVA Validation Test for EVA for Assembly of the Japanese Experiment Module - "Kibo" assembly to the ISS

• Mission Specialist Astronaut Candidate Training
  • Space Shuttle System Training
  • On-site training at the NASA facilities
• The 59th JCI World Congress in Fukuoka
• A Teleconference Session: A conversation with Soichi Noguchi, the astronaut who was raised near the Sea of Chigasaki
• Lecture at Austin Japanese School

• Mission Specialist Astronaut Candidate Training
  • T-38 flight training
  • Training in a zero-gravity environment aboard a KC-135 aircraft.
  • On-site training at NASA facilities
• Canadarm2 (Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS)) Operation Support
• Astronaut Doi and Astronaut Wakata Awarded the GEM (Go the Extra Mile)

• Giving a Lecture in China on the "Current Status of Japanese Manned Space Flight and Future Expectations"
• Mission Specialist Astronaut Candidate Training
  • T-38 flight training
  • On-site training at the NASA facilities
• The second meeting of Japan-China Committee for New Friendship in the 21st Century
• The second JAXA town meeting

• Astronaut Noguchi temporarily returns to Japan before boarding Space Shuttle.
• Mission Specialist Astronaut Candidate Training
  • Orientation
  • Land Survival Training
• Induction Ceremony of Takasaki High School and Takasaki Girls High School and Astronaut Doi's Lecture at NASA

• Mission Specialist Astronaut Candidate Training
  • T-34C aircraft Flight Training
• Astronaut Mukai's Tenth Anniversary Commemorative Event "Space Classroom and Lecture for Children"

• Mission Specialist Astronaut Candidate Training
  • Water Survival Training
  • T-34C aircraft Flight Training
• Refresher Training
• Giving a Lecture at the 24th Conference of the Japanese Society for Bone Morphometry. "Actual Manned Space Flight and Its Future"
• Giving a Memorial Lecture on the 50th Anniversary of Hodaka Town "Towards a Future Dream"

• Soyuz Training
• Canadarm2 Training
• First JAXA Town Meeting
• Talk Show at the International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (ISTS)

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