米航空宇宙局によれば、ガリレオ搭載のものと類似した発電機を搭載して行った宇宙飛行２２回のうち、３回の飛行で事故が発生したとのことです。の英語

NASA says three of 22 space missions that carried generators similar to Galileo's ended in accidents.

The year 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei’s first astronomical telescope, the 50th anniversary of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the 40th anniversary of man’s landing on the moon.

The biofuel used for the test flight was not made from corn or other plants that are grown as food for people.

Fuel leaked from the airplane soon after it took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the United States, on Feb. 8.

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, orbited the Earth on the Vostok 1 spacecraft to become the first human to travel into space.

Scientists had to use a technically difficult and untried method to land Curiosity on Mars.

The rocket carried JAXA's Venus orbiter "Akatsuki" and solar sail demonstrator "Ikaros" into space.

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has put together a plan to have a private company construct a commercial rocket-launching facility inside the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that the Mars rover Curiosity successfully landed on Mars on Aug. 6.

The satellite is equipped with dual-frequency precipitation radars developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and a GPM microwave imager developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will use the satellite to carry out verification tests on next-generation solar cells.

U.S. President Barack Obama said in a statement, "The successful landing of Curiosity marks an unprecedented feat of technology."

Ten months earlier, a Soviet astronaut, Yuri Gagarin, had become the first human to travel to outer space and orbit the earth.

a program of rocket-powered flights undertaken by US between 1961 and 1963 with the goal of putting a man in orbit around the earth

On Nov. 29, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched an H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center.

On July 14, the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL) carried out a flight test of its first experimental supersonic aircraft in Woomera, Australia.

The technology is essential in realizing longer manned space journeys, such as missions to Mars.

The team led by a scientist at the University of Liège in Belgium used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and other facilities to make the discovery.

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently announced that in 2016 it would launch an unmanned space probe called OSIRIS-REx (Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer).

The two prototypes are test models of the H-II Orbiting Plane-Experimental (HOPE-X) space craft developed for future space transportation by Japan’s National Space Development Agency (NASDA) and the National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL).

The space shuttle Discovery lifted into space on April 5 with Yamazaki Naoko, 39, the first Japanese mother to fly into space, and six other crew members on board.

An educational-industrial complex consisting of Chiba University, Osaka Prefecture University, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Hirobo Corporation and others is working to develop a landmine detection system using radio-controlled helicopters.

This summer, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to carry out the same experiment to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the launch.

On Feb. 25, 1942, during World War II, 25 flying objects were sighted over Los Angeles.

The components of the first and second stages are made at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' plants and space-related manufacturers and brought together at the Tobishima plant in Aichi Prefecture.

On June 18, the capsule was taken to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA's) facility in Kanagawa Prefecture.

At the Tobishima plant of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Nagoya Aerospace Systems Works, rocket components are assembled and tested.

He awarded medals to astronauts from several countries, including Noguchi Soichi of Japan, to honor their achievements in space exploration.

Last year JAXA tested an unmanned airship together with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently announced that its H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) re-entered the Earth's atmosphere to successfully complete its 67-day mission.