Naoko Yamazaki

National | New Year Special 2019 Jan 1, 2019

Former astronaut Naoko Yamazaki hopeful for commercial space travel

The year 2019 marks 50 years since the first humans landed on the moon in 1969 as part of NASA’s Apollo 11 lunar mission. In an interview with Managing Editor Sayuri Daimon, former Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki shares her experience in space in 2010 ...

National Oct 29, 2014

Chiba group touts pumpkins grown from space seeds

A citizens' group in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, is working on making pumpkins grown from seeds taken to space into a local specialty. The city, which came up with the idea, asked Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, a Matsudo native, for cooperation. In 2010, Yamazaki took 230 ...