Naoko Yamanaka

During his stay aboard the ISS, his fellow JAXA astronaut Naoko Yamazaki arrived at the ISS on the STS-131 (19A) mission. This was the first time that two Japanese ...

Q. How did you feel when you first learned you would be traveling to space? How did your family respond? Crew members of the STS-131 mission (Courtesy of NASA)

Only a select few make it up into space, but for Naoko Yamazaki, Japan's first mother to don an astronaut's suit, it meant waiting over a decade after being selected and ...