NASDA monitoring world's first u

NASDA monitoring world's first u

Officials at the Tuskuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, are monitoring July 7 rendezvous-docking experiments in orbit. Two Japanese space probes, Orihime and Hikoboshi, prepared by the National Space Development Agency (NASDA) successfully docked over Mexico, marking the world's first unmanned rendezvous and docking in orbit. ==Kyodo

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