This is the second installment on the JAXA Kaguya Lunar Orbiter mission and I offer a detailed summary of its important mission accomplishments. Have a look back at my July 5th posting on both the JAXA Kaguya and Hayabusa missions for the background on this. A critical fact carried over from the NASA Apollo missions of 1967 […]
Summer Festival Calendar for August 2010! ( 花火大会 )
OK! Hello again everyone! Here is the August Festival Calendar I promised you July 12th. August is a block-buster for events. There are more scheduled festivals than ever before, and more of them are on weekends. Crowds will be that much bigger, too as a result! Naturally! Sunday August 1st – PL in Tondabayashi 100,000 rockets, […]
Summer Festival Calendar for July 2010! ( 花火大会 )
Many of you know that my wife Yoko and I are hardcore summer festival revelers and this summer already has us feverish with so many festivals scheduled on our days off! Never before have we been able to plan for so many festivals (22 to be exact !), and as a result this year I […]
