When I was driving the Mars rover, it encountered a rock that wanted to pass a message to us. So I downlinked it and translated it into English and Russian. Когда я управлял марсоходом, он наткнулся на камень, который хотел передать нам сообщение. Я передал его по каналу связи и перевел на английский и русский […]
The year 2021 was full of triumphs in humanity’s venture to space. The Mars Rover Perseverance (cost: $2.75B), which I have been proudly working on for seven years, landed on the red planet in February to search for the sign of ancient extraterrestrial life. To the relief of many anxious scientists and engineers who are […]
I translated a science picture book, “Rocket Science for Babies” from Chris Ferrie‘s Baby University series, which sold more than a million copies worldwide in total. The Japanese version will be published today. On top of translation, I had the honor of writing the preface and the commentary for the Japanese version, which are posted […]
It was reported that the Mars Rover Opportunity, which lost contact in June 2018 due to the Martian global dust storm, was rescued by the Curiosity Rover on April 1, 2019. About a month and a half ago, the Opportunity operation team gave up contacting the rover and declared the end of the mission. However, […]
I think every NASA employee has a special spacecraft that inspired him or her in childhood. Apollo 11 is by far the most prominent source of inspiration among the old-timers. Many recent new employees chose NASA because of Mar rovers. For me, it was Voyager 2. For that reason, I read the news on this […]
It is quite a pain when you have something you are eager to tell but need to keep quiet. Finally, it became public!! My book, “The Voyage: past, present, and future of space exploration” (original title: 宇宙に命はあるのか：人類が旅した一千億分の八) will become a movie! The book was published in Japan in this February and quite well received. 40K […]
