Abductee Megumi Yokota's mother writes lyrics for song

Abductee Megumi Yokota's mother writes lyrics for song

TOKYO, Japan - Sakie Yokota (C), the mother of Megumi Yokota who was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, announces a CD at a press conference in Tokyo on May 9. Yokota wrote the lyrics for a song that will be released on CD on May 10. The lyrics for the song, ''Like Cosmos,'' are based on the memories of Sakie and Megumi when the Yokotas were living in Niigata Prefecture at the time of the abduction. The music was composed by singer-songwriter Makoto Iwabuchi (R).

NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

★Handout photo dated November 22, 2016 of the primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope consisting of 18 hexagonal mirrors looks like a giant puzzle piece standing in the massive clean room of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Appropriately, combined with the rest of the observatory, the mirrors will help piece together puzzles scientists have been trying to solve throughout the cosmos. Last summer, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) set an October 31, 2021, launch date for the $ 10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, but it's having to delay the science observatory's trip into space once again. Thankfully, the launch might take place just a few weeks later, in November or early December. A rescheduled date is unlikely to be confirmed until later this summer or perhaps in the fall. The instrument, successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which i

Abductee Megumi Yokota's mother writes lyrics for song

Abductee Megumi Yokota's mother writes lyrics for song

TOKYO, Japan - Sakie Yokota (C), the mother of Megumi Yokota who was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, announces a CD at a press conference in Tokyo on May 9. Yokota wrote the lyrics for a song that will be released on CD on May 10. The lyrics for the song, ''Like Cosmos,'' are based on the memories of Sakie and Megumi when the Yokotas were living in Niigata Prefecture at the time of the abduction. The music was composed by singer-songwriter Makoto Iwabuchi (R). (Kyodo)