Industry committee  The commitment of the government is the same, and now, with Mr. Obama's proposal to extend the international space station by five years to 2020, in Japan as well as in Canada and Europe we are discussing very vividly if it's worth expanding the life of the space station. So fa

Industry committee  In general it is very supportive. As for the exploration, two weeks ago I was with the science minister in Japan and we had a symposium on whether we should go to the moon or to Mars. So far, in Japan the interest in the moon is very high.

Industry committee  Actually, this discussion has been going on. For example, Japan is at this time the only country participating in the international space station from Asia. Each year we have the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum. We have Canadian representatives, U.S. representatives, rep

Industry committee  The photo shows the Japanese module from one of the Soyuz spacecraft. I believe the picture was taken by a shuttle after undocking. After undocking, we usually go 360 degrees around the space station, and we then take a lot of pictures of the international space station.

Industry committee  It's very easy to transport from one place to another. You just push, and then your body floats very easily, but once you start to spin, it's very difficult to stop, because you need to hold on to two places to stop the spin. Transporting a big, heavy payload is very easy. Max i

Industry committee  We've seen Dubai, and a great deal of artificial construction all over the world. We also captured a hurricane and observed some volcanic activities on the Kuril Islands north of Japan.

Industry committee  This is a 3-D space experiment that we're conducting in the European Columbus module. We tried to find out how microgravity affects our ability to judge distance in zero gravity. Here Nicole Stott is working on the phlebotomy for the medical science experiment. We collect the s

Industry committee  Here I was working on the advanced resistance exercise device. We were scheduled for about two hours of aerobic activities as far as this muscle-strengthening exercise was concerned. It's very important to have this exercise so that we can maintain our health, including our bone

Industry committee  We had two human space transportation systems that are now in use for the international space station. One is the Russian Soyuz vehicle, and the other one is the U.S. space shuttle. Bob and Frank, together with Roman Romanenko from Russia, went up on the Soyuz, and I went up on t

Industry committee  This is before the rendezvous. It's amazing to see this gigantic scientific platform floating in a low Earth orbit. This is the Soyuz spacecraft just docked. Bob came into the space station, and Commander Gennady Padalka and I were all greeting them.

Industry committee  This is the assembly of the Japanese Kibo module. There were three shuttle missions, and this is the final assembly of the Japanese Kibo module. We used the Canadarm2 to take it out from the shuttle's cargo bay and install it onto the Japanese laboratory. After that, we moved eac

Industry committee  It's my great honour to be here. I started to work as an astronaut candidate back in 1992. I was in the same class with, I was very honoured to be able to be in the astronaut corps with, Dr. Marc Garneau and Chris Hadfield. He was already an established astronaut at that time, an

Industry committee  Since then I have had an opportunity to fly three times in space. On every flight I had an opportunity to fly the Canadarm, the space shuttle's robotic arm; the space station robotic arm; and Dextre, the Dexterous Manipulator of the Canadian contribution. Those are wonderful asse