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JAXA Astronaut Activity Report, 2004

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December
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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
November
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  • 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
October
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  • 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)
September
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  • 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
August
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  • 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
July
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  • Mission Specialist Astronaut Candidate Training
    • T-34C aircraft Flight Training
  • Astronaut Mukai's Tenth Anniversary Commemorative Event "Space Classroom and Lecture for Children"
June
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  • 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"

April through May
Astronaut Hoshide in Orlan spacesuit
  • Soyuz Training
  • Canadarm2 Training
  • First JAXA Town Meeting
  • Talk Show at the International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (ISTS)

Last Updated: Feb. 16, 2005

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