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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 2

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 3

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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Japanese astronaut Wakata exercises at ISS

TSUKUBA, Japan - An audience at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, watch footage of Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata exercising at the International Space Station, while fellow astronaut Satoshi Fukukawa (R) gives a presentation on Jan. 21, 2014.

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Astronaut Wakata

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata speaks during a press conference at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo on July 29, 2013. Wakata is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on Nov. 7, 2013, and become the first Japanese skipper of the ISS during the latter half of his mission.

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Astronaut Wakata

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata speaks during a press conference at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo on July 29, 2013. Wakata is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on Nov. 7, 2013, and become the first Japanese skipper of the ISS during the latter half of his mission.

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5 satellites to be put into orbit from ISS module

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows five small satellites to be put into orbit from the Japanese laboratory module Kibo on the International Space Station, possibly in September 2012, as the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency or JAXA showed the satellites to reporters in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on June 25, 2012.

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Astronaut Hoshide at Tsukuba Space Center

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (R) explains about a device used to release small satellites from the International Space Station at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Jan. 25, 2012. Hoshide is scheduled to stay on the ISS for about six months from late May 2012 for his mission.

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide at press conference

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide speaks at a news conference at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Jan. 25, 2012. It was Hoshide's last press conference in Japan before the start in late May of a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

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Japanese astronaut Furukawa

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (on screen) at the International Space Station communicates with people at the Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Sept. 14, 2011. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the same day that it is consulting with agencies in other countries to arrange the return of Furukawa, who has been on the ISS since June 10, to Earth on Nov. 17.

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Astronaut Furukawa receives medical checkup

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (shown in displays) aboard the International Space Station sticks out his tongue during a medical checkup using a real-time data transmission system connecting the ISS and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on the night of Sept. 6, 2011.

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HTV2 arrives at space station

TSUKUBA, Japan - Officials of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, celebrate after a robot arm at the International Space Center successfully captured the HTV2 transporter on Jan. 27, 2011. The transporter will deliver about 5.3 tons of cargo to the ISS, including food, water and equipment for use in Japan's Kibo laboratory module.

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Emperor, empress visit Tsukuba

TSUKUBA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko arrive at Tsukuba Station on the Tsukuba Express line in Ibaraki Prefecture on Aug. 1, 2010. The couple visited Tsukuba City to attend the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress visit Tsukuba

TSUKUBA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko arrive at Tsukuba Station on the Tsukuba Express line in Ibaraki Prefecture on Aug. 1, 2010. The couple visited Tsukuba City to attend the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics. (Pool photo)

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Spanish king, queen visit Tsukuba Space Center

TOKYO, Japan - Spanish King Juan Carlos (2nd from L) and Queen Sofia (2nd from R), accompanied by Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko (R), leave JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on Nov. 12 on a special train for the imperial family for Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture. (Pool photo)

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Astronauts practice operating space laboratory at Tsukuba

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronauts Akihiko Hoshide (L) and Satoshi Furukawa speak at a press conference at Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Feb. 28 after practicing using the functions of Japan's first manned space laboratory called Kibo, which is scheduled to become part of the International Space Station, in simulation training at the center.

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Tsukuba Express train service launched between Tokyo, Ibaraki Pref.

TSUKUBA, Japan - The first train of Tsukuba Express train service leaves Tsukuba station in Ibaraki Prefecture for Tokyo's Akihabara station on Aug. 24 after a ceremony was held to mark the launch of the service.

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Tsukuba Express train service launched between Tokyo, Ibaraki Pref.

TSUKUBA, Japan - A ceremony is held at Tsukuba station in Ibaraki Prefecture on Aug. 24 to mark the launch of the Tsukuba Express train service, which links 58.3 kilometers between Tokyo's Akihabara district and Tsukuba.

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Japanese astronaut performs simulated zero-gravity exercise

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata performs a simulated zero-gravity exercise open to the public Nov. 12 at the Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, in preparation for work on the International Space Station (ISS).

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Astronauts train underwater

Astronauts set to go on space missions for the proposed International Space Station (ISS) undergo weightlessness training at the Tsukuba Space Center, northeast of Tokyo, on Sept. 25. Soichi Noguchi (C), 33, who has just returned from training in Russia, participated in underwater simulations of extravehicular activity at the 10-meter-deep pool of the National Space Development Agency of Japan.

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Japanese astronaut performs simulated zero-gravity exercise

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata performs a simulated zero-gravity exercise open to the public Nov. 12 at the Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, in preparation for work on the International Space Station (ISS).

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Astronauts practice operating space laboratory at Tsukuba

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronauts Akihiko Hoshide (L) and Satoshi Furukawa speak at a press conference at Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Feb. 28 after practicing using the functions of Japan's first manned space laboratory called Kibo, which is scheduled to become part of the International Space Station, in simulation training at the center. (Kyodo)

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Segway wheelchair begins trail on train

An official at Segway Japan Ltd. operates its Genny motorized wheelchair as he gets on a train at a station in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on March 27, 2016. The Segway subsidiary based in Yokohama began trials on the Tsukuba Express line of users of the device getting on and off trains. ==Kyodo

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Japanese astronaut commends use of robotic arm by colleague in space

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide explains to the press on Aug. 24, 2015, at JAXA's Tsukuba Space Center northeast of Tokyo the mission of the Kounotori 5 cargo transporter that arrived at the International Space Station the same day. Hoshide commended fellow astronaut Kimiya Yui's use of a robotic arm to capture the transporter to dock with the ISS. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's unmanned cargo ship arrives at International Space Station

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency controllers applaud at the agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Aug. 24, 2015, after an unmanned cargo ship that was launched from Japan the previous week to deliver food and other supplies arrived at the International Space Station. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Docking drill for ISS-bound Japanese cargo transporter shown to press

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency shows the press a simulated training session for docking the Konotori (stork) 5 unmanned cargo transporter to the International Space Station in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on July 10, 2015. The transporter, scheduled for launch on Aug. 16, will carry supplies and observation equipment to the ISS. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese microsatellite released from space station

Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui pumps his fist in celebration of the successful release into space of a microsatellite for meteor observation from the International Space Station, as seen from a monitor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Sept. 17, 2015. Yui, on a mission aboard the ISS from July to December, took part in releasing the S-Cube developed by two Japanese universities from the Kibo ("hope") Japanese laboratory unit on the ISS. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese microsatellite released from space station

Officials of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Chiba Institute of Technology and other organizations involved applaud at JAXA's Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Sept. 17, 2015, in celebration of the successful release into space of a microsatellite for meteor observation from the International Space Station, observed on a JAXA monitor screen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JAXA's flight director happy at Japan cargo mission's success

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency flight director Mayumi Matsuura meets the press at the Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Aug. 25, 2015. She expressed relief as Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui aboard the International Space Station successfully captured the Kounotori5 unmanned supply spacecraft by maneuvering a robotic arm. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsukuba Express train service launched between Tokyo, Ibaraki Pr

TSUKUBA, Japan - A ceremony is held at Tsukuba station in Ibaraki Prefecture on Aug. 24 to mark the launch of the Tsukuba Express train service, which links 58.3 kilometers between Tokyo's Akihabara district and Tsukuba. (Kyodo)

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Tsukuba Express train service launched between Tokyo, Ibaraki Pr

TSUKUBA, Japan - The first train of Tsukuba Express train service leaves Tsukuba station in Ibaraki Prefecture for Tokyo's Akihabara station on Aug. 24 after a ceremony was held to mark the launch of the service. (Kyodo)

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Spanish king, queen visit Tsukuba Space Center

TOKYO, Japan - Spanish King Juan Carlos (2nd from L) and Queen Sofia (2nd from R), accompanied by Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko (R), leave JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on Nov. 12 on a special train for the imperial family for Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Astronaut Furukawa receives medical checkup

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (shown in displays) aboard the International Space Station sticks out his tongue during a medical checkup using a real-time data transmission system connecting the ISS and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on the night of Sept. 6, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Japanese astronaut Furukawa

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (on screen) at the International Space Station communicates with people at the Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Sept. 14, 2011. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the same day that it is consulting with agencies in other countries to arrange the return of Furukawa, who has been on the ISS since June 10, to Earth on Nov. 17. (Kyodo)

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Emperor, empress visit Tsukuba

TSUKUBA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko arrive at Tsukuba Station on the Tsukuba Express line in Ibaraki Prefecture on Aug. 1, 2010. The couple visited Tsukuba City to attend the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Emperor, empress visit Tsukuba

TSUKUBA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko arrive at Tsukuba Station on the Tsukuba Express line in Ibaraki Prefecture on Aug. 1, 2010. The couple visited Tsukuba City to attend the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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HTV2 arrives at space station

TSUKUBA, Japan - Officials of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, celebrate after a robot arm at the International Space Center successfully captured the HTV2 transporter on Jan. 27, 2011. The transporter will deliver about 5.3 tons of cargo to the ISS, including food, water and equipment for use in Japan's Kibo laboratory module. (Kyodo)

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Astronaut Hoshide at Tsukuba Space Center

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (R) explains about a device used to release small satellites from the International Space Station at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Jan. 25, 2012. Hoshide is scheduled to stay on the ISS for about six months from late May 2012 for his mission. (Kyodo)

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide at press conference

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide speaks at a news conference at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Jan. 25, 2012. It was Hoshide's last press conference in Japan before the start in late May of a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. (Kyodo)

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Capsule with experiment samples from ISS

Japan's first capsule that succeeded in bringing back experiment samples from the International Space Station to Earth on Nov. 11, 2018 is shown to the press at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Nov. 27. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Capsule with experiment samples from ISS

Japan's first capsule that succeeded in bringing back experiment samples from the International Space Station to Earth on Nov. 11, 2018 is shown to the press at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Nov. 27. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Experiment samples from ISS

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency officials show a capsule that contained experiment samples from the International Space Station at the agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Nov. 13, 2018, two days after the capsule returned to Earth, landing in waters near Japan's easternmost island. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Experiment samples from ISS

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency officials carry a box containing experiment samples from the International Space Station into the agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Nov. 13, 2018, two days after a capsule containing the samples returned to Earth, landing in waters near Japan's easternmost island. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Capsule returns to Earth in milestone for Japanese space missions

Hirohiko Uematsu (R), technology director of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, poses with another JAXA official during a press conference at the agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Nov. 11, 2018. JAXA retrieved a capsule ejected from a space cargo vessel that returned to Earth the previous day bringing back experiment samples from the International Space Station in Japan's first such mission. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor's trip to Tsukuba with Luxembourg grand duke

Japanese Emperor Akihito (2nd from L) and Empress Michiko (R) wave to people in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2017 along with Luxembourg's Grand Duke Henri (L) and his eldest daughter Princess Alexandra (2nd from R) after arriving at Tsuchiura station. In Ibaraki, they will visit the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center later in the day. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor's trip to Tsukuba with Luxembourg grand duke

Japanese Emperor Akihito (R) and Empress Michiko (C) arrive at Tsuchiura station in Ibaraki Prefecture on Nov. 28, 2017 along with Luxembourg's Grand Duke Henri (L) and his eldest daughter Princess Alexandra (not shown in this photo). In Ibaraki, they will visit the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center later in the day. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor's trip to Tsukuba with Luxembourg grand duke

Japanese Emperor Akihito (2nd from L) and Empress Michiko (L) depart Tokyo station on Nov. 28, 2017 along with Luxembourg's Grand Duke Henri (2nd from R) and his eldest daughter Princess Alexandra (not shown in this photo) to travel to Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture. They will visit the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center later in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor's trip to Tsukuba with Luxembourg grand duke

Japanese Emperor Akihito (3rd from R) and Empress Michiko (2nd from L) guide Luxembourg's Grand Duke Henri (3rd from L) and his eldest daughter Princess Alexandra (L) to a special train at Tokyo station on Nov. 28, 2017. They will travel to Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, to visit the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center later in the day. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Unmanned cargo spaceship carrying supplies docks with ISS

Maki Maeda (R), a lead flight director for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kounotori6 unmanned cargo transporter, tells a press conference in Tsukuba, near Tokyo, in the early hours on Dec. 14, 2016, that the spaceship loaded with supplies successfully docked at the International Space Station. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Astronauts train underwater

Astronauts set to go on space missions for the proposed International Space Station (ISS) undergo weightlessness training at the Tsukuba Space Center, northeast of Tokyo, on Sept. 25. Soichi Noguchi (C), 33, who has just returned from training in Russia, participated in underwater simulations of extravehicular activity at the 10-meter-deep pool of the National Space Development Agency of Japan.