JAXA info center closes

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa (L), president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA, Junichiro Kawaguchi (C), professor and JAXA manager of the Hayabusa space probe project, and astronaut Akihiko Hoshide speak at an event to mark the closure of JAXAi, the space agency's information center in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2010. The center, which opened in 2004, closed as part of government spending cuts. (Kyodo)

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