Kibo-ABC Member Countries’ News: Indonesia and Japan
Last Updated: October 26, 2015
Indonesian Youth talked with Astronaut Soichi Noguchi in the communication event of Space Science Festival in Bandung, Indonesia
The communication event with JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi, has been held as a part of Space Science Festival in Indonesia, organized by National Institute of Aeronautics and Space, Indonesia (LAPAN).
They connected with him from Auditorium room in LAPAN Space science center in Bandung, where 170 participants including 115 students gathered. This communication was held using the video conference system, and the audiences were excited to see JAXA astronaut in live video for the first time.
Astronaut Noguchi started his talk with the greeting to participants by Indonesian language “Selamat pagi”, meaning “good morning”. He explained his experience in his two missions on ISS, showing some pictures taken while he was on-board ISS. He also gave information of Kibo-ABC/Kibo utilization collaboration activity of LAPAN and JAXA.
Students had chance to ask him questions after the lecture. Students asked him questions mainly in English, where some students who tried to use Japanese to talk with him. Many questions were answered, including questions such as ‘what is your favorite space food?’, ‘how the earth looked like when seen from space?’ and ‘how did you feel when you got back to the earth?’ Astronaut Noguchi insisted on how beautiful the earth is seen from the space and the photos cannot tell its beauty enough, thus you need to go to space to see it with your own eyes. He also mentioned that he “felt home” when he came back to the earth, but on the very next day he missed the space and wanted to go back there.
The last question from the student was ‘what are the requirements to become an astronaut?’ and astronaut Noguchi answered, ‘it requires a lot of aspect to become an astronaut, such as majoring scientific field in university, being physically fit and also ability of using multi-languages. But the most important thing is to have a strong motivation for exploring into space.’
Space Science Festival is an annual event organized by LAPAN to celebrate World Space Week (worldspaceweek.org). The event encourages students to learn more about space science and astronomy, and also promotes space experiments for better utilization of space technology.
For further information, please visit LAPAN’s website: http://pussainsa.lapan.go.id/fsa
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