WASHINGTON – Astronaut Koichi Wakata visited a NASA facility Wednesday to monitor the progress being made on a satellite network designed to monitor rain and snowfall worldwide.
The system being jointly developed by Japan and the United States.
Wakata, who became the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station earlier this year, viewed the operation of the Global Precipitation Measurement system at Goddard Space Flight Center in Washington.
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