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Japan's first person in space

Toyohiro Akiyama, a reporter for the Japanese television broadcaster Tokyo Broadcasting System, signs the Soyuz space capsule, which was charred upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere, in a field in Arkalyk in the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan on Dec. 10, 1990. He became the first Japanese to travel into space.

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US: Fiery Streak Spotted in California as Dragon Spacecraft Reenters Atmosphere 3

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft was spotted in the night sky across California as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere on Saturday, May 24. A sonic boom was also reported in Southern California.

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US: Fiery Streak Spotted in California as Dragon Spacecraft Reenters Atmosphere 4

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft was spotted in the night sky across California as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere on Saturday, May 24. A sonic boom was also reported in Southern California.

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US: Fiery Streak Spotted in California as Dragon Spacecraft Reenters Atmosphere 2

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft was spotted in the night sky across California as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere on Saturday, May 24. A sonic boom was also reported in Southern California.

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US: Fiery Streak Spotted in California as Dragon Spacecraft Reenters Atmosphere

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft was spotted in the night sky across California a it reentered Earth's atmosphere on Saturday, May 24. A sonic boom was also reported in Southern California.

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Germany: Burning Debris From SpaceX Falcon 9 Lights Up Skies

Burning debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lit up the skies over multiple cities in Germany early on Wednesday, February 19.

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US: Bright Streaks Of Space Debris Spotted Across Midwest

Objects that appeared to be space debris were spotted streaking across the night sky in several Midwest states on Tuesday, January 28.

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US: Fiery Re-Entry Of Suspected Space Debris Witnessed Over California 2

Skygazers in California witnessed a fiery object re-entering from space and breaking up as it streaks across the sky on early Tuesday, April 2. Witnesses saw the object around 1:30 a.m. and many suspected it had something to do with the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch the previous evening. Some on social media said that it may be from the Chinese Shenzhou 15 Orbital Module that was predicted to re-enter near Los Angeles at 01:45 local time.

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US: Fiery Re-Entry Of Suspected Space Debris Witnessed Over California

Skygazers in California witnessed a fiery object re-entering from space and breaking up as it streaks across the sky on early Tuesday, April 2. Witnesses saw the object around 1:30 a.m. and many suspected it had something to do with the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch the previous evening. Some on social media said that it may be from the Chinese Shenzhou 15 Orbital Module that was predicted to re-enter near Los Angeles at 01:45 local time. This is a developing story.

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US: NASA’s Crew-7 Successfully Re-Enters Earth After 6-Month Mission On ISS 6

NASA's Crew-7 successfully re-entered Earth on early Tuesday, March 12. The SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying the four crew members of a six-month science and research mission on the International Space Station landed off Pensacola, Florida. Skygazers in the Midwest and Southern U.S. witnessed the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule streaking across the dark pre-dawn skies.

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US: NASA’s Crew-7 Successfully Re-Enters Earth After 6-Month Mission On ISS 5

NASA's Crew-7 successfully re-entered Earth on early Tuesday, March 12. The SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying the four crew members of a six-month science and research mission on the International Space Station landed off Pensacola, Florida. Skygazers in the Midwest and Southern U.S. witnessed the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule streaking across the dark pre-dawn skies.

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US: NASA’s Crew-7 Successfully Re-Enters Earth After 6-Month Mission On ISS 4

NASA's Crew-7 successfully re-entered Earth on early Tuesday, March 12. The SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying the four crew members of a six-month science and research mission on the International Space Station landed off Pensacola, Florida. Skygazers in the Midwest and Southern U.S witnessed the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule streaking across the dark pre-dawn skies.

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US: NASA’s Crew-7 Successfully Re-Enters Earth After 6-Month Mission On ISS 3

NASA's Crew-7 successfully re-entered Earth on early Tuesday, March 12. The SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying the four crew members of a six-month science and research mission on the International Space Station landed off Pensacola, Florida. Skygazers in the Midwest and Southern U.S witnessed the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule streaking across the dark pre-dawn skies.

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US: NASA’s Crew-7 Successfully Re-Enters Earth After 6-Month Mission On ISS

NASA's Crew-7 successfully re-entered Earth on early Tuesday, March 12. The SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying the four crew members of a six-month science and research mission on the International Space Station landed off Pensacola, Florida. Skygazers in the Midwest and Southern U.S witnessed the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule streaking across the dark pre-dawn skies.

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US: NASA’s Crew-7 Successfully Re-Enters Earth After 6-Month Mission On ISS 2

NASA's Crew-7 successfully re-entered Earth on early Tuesday, March 12. The SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying the four crew members of a six-month science and research mission on the International Space Station landed off Pensacola, Florida. Skygazers in the Midwest and Southern U.S witnessed the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule streaking across the dark pre-dawn skies.

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Astronauts return to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (C) is carried from the reentry capsule of a Soyuz spacecraft on a plain near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 8:55 a.m. on Nov. 22, 2011, after the spacecraft carrying Furukawa and two other astronauts -- American Mike Fossum and Sergei Volkov of Russia -- returned to Earth. The spacecraft landed at 8:25 a.m., bringing the three back to Earth after they completed a five-and-a-half-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

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Astronauts return to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (R) is carried by compatriot astronaut Soichi Noguchi (L) and others from a Soyuz spacecraft on a plain near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 8:55 a.m. on Nov. 22, 2011, with the reentry capsule of the spacecraft shown in the background. The spacecraft carrying Furukawa and two other astronauts -- American Mike Fossum and Sergei Volkov of Russia -- landed at 8:25 a.m., bringing the three back to Earth after they completed a five-and-a-half-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

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Foreigners leaving Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign residents wait in line to obtain reentry permits in front of the Justice Ministry's Tokyo Immigration Bureau on March 17, 2011, before temporarily leaving the quake-hit country.

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Hayabusa capsule analysis

SAPPORO, Japan - Reporters visit Hokkaido University in Sapporo, northern Japan, to view samples brought back from the asteroid Itokawa by the unmanned Japanese space probe Hayabusa on March 1, 2011. A total of 13 institutes and eight teams have taken part in the project to analyze the samples. Hayabusa was launched in May 2003 and landed on the asteroid in September 2005. It returned to Earth while burning out upon reentry into atmosphere in June 2010 and the capsule containing the samples was recovered in a desert in southern Australia.

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Hayabusa capsule analysis

SAPPORO, Japan - Reporters visit Hokkaido University in Sapporo, northern Japan, to view samples brought back from the asteroid Itokawa by the unmanned Japanese space probe Hayabusa on March 1, 2011. Seen at left back is a machine for analysis. A total of 13 institutes and eight teams have taken part in the project to analyze the samples. Hayabusa was launched in May 2003 and landed on the asteroid in September 2005. It returned to Earth while burning out upon reentry into atmosphere in June 2010 and the capsule containing the samples was recovered in a desert in southern Australia.

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Hayabusa capsule analysis

SAPPORO, Japan - Reporters visit Hokkaido University in Sapporo, northern Japan, to view samples brought back from the asteroid Itokawa by the unmanned Japanese space probe Hayabusa on March 1, 2011. A total of 13 institutes and eight teams have taken part in the project to analyze the samples. Hayabusa was launched in May 2003 and landed on the asteroid in September 2005. It returned to Earth while burning out upon reentry into atmosphere in June 2010 and the capsule containing the samples was recovered in a desert in southern Australia.

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Chinese activist at Narita airport allowed to return home

NARITA, Japan - Chinese human rights activist Feng Zhenghu, who has been staying at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, since Nov. 4, 2009, after China rejected his reentry and sent him back to Japan, speaks to reporters at the airport on Feb. 2, 2010. Feng said he has been allowed to return home and now plans to return to Shanghai by the Lunar New Year's Day on Feb. 14.

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Chinese activist at Narita airport allowed to return home

NARITA, Japan - Chinese human rights activist Feng Zhenghu, who has been staying at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, since Nov. 4, 2009, after China rejected his reentry and sent him back to Japan, speaks to reporters at the airport on Feb. 2, 2010. Feng said he has been allowed to return home and now plans to return to Shanghai by the Lunar New Year's Day on Feb. 14.

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Mazda launches newly developed CX-7 crossover SUV in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mazda Motor Corp. President Hisakazu Imaki poses beside a newly developed CX-7 crossover sport-utility vehicle at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 19. The debut of the five-seat model, equipped with a 2.3-liter turbocharged engine, marks Mazda's reentry into the SUV segment of the market in Japan after terminating domestic sales of the Tribute sport-utility vehicle in late 2005.

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Space reentry experiment device unveiled

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - A space reentry device, called DASH (Demonstrator of Atmospheric reentry System with Hyperbolic Velocity), is unveiled to the media at the National Space Development Agency of Japan's (NASDA) space center in Tanegashima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture on Dec. 16. DASH will be loaded into Japan's second H-2A rocket to be launched Jan. 31 by the government's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. The device consists of box-shaped storage equipment (fore) and a cylinder-shaped tester (center), which is 40 centimeters wide, 20 cm high and weighs 16 kilograms.

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China's space mission returns to Earth

BEIJING, China - This photo taken from footage aired by China Central Television shows rescue staff and a doctor checking the reentry module of the Shenzhou VII manned spacecraft which successfully landed on grasslands in a remote area of Inner Mongolia on Sept. 28. (Kyodo)

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Mazda launches newly developed CX-7 crossover SUV in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mazda Motor Corp. President Hisakazu Imaki poses beside a newly developed CX-7 crossover sport-utility vehicle at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 19. The debut of the five-seat model, equipped with a 2.3-liter turbocharged engine, marks Mazda's reentry into the SUV segment of the market in Japan after terminating domestic sales of the Tribute sport-utility vehicle in late 2005. (Kyodo)

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Hayabusa capsule analysis

SAPPORO, Japan - Reporters visit Hokkaido University in Sapporo, northern Japan, to view samples brought back from the asteroid Itokawa by the unmanned Japanese space probe Hayabusa on March 1, 2011. A total of 13 institutes and eight teams have taken part in the project to analyze the samples. Hayabusa was launched in May 2003 and landed on the asteroid in September 2005. It returned to Earth while burning out upon reentry into atmosphere in June 2010 and the capsule containing the samples was recovered in a desert in southern Australia. (Kyodo)

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Hayabusa capsule analysis

SAPPORO, Japan - Reporters visit Hokkaido University in Sapporo, northern Japan, to view samples brought back from the asteroid Itokawa by the unmanned Japanese space probe Hayabusa on March 1, 2011. A total of 13 institutes and eight teams have taken part in the project to analyze the samples. Hayabusa was launched in May 2003 and landed on the asteroid in September 2005. It returned to Earth while burning out upon reentry into atmosphere in June 2010 and the capsule containing the samples was recovered in a desert in southern Australia. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima temporary home visit rehearsal

KAWAUCHI, Japan - Yoshiyuki Takeuchi, 53, an employee of the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, shows his wife's engagement ring in Kawauchi, Fukushima, on May 3, 2011, after retrieving some items from his home near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Takeuchi made a quick return home as part of the municipality's rehearsal for the upcoming program to allow its evacuated residents to briefly visit their homes in the no-reentry zone near the plant. He recommended that residents make notes of what they want to retrieve before making the visits. (Kyodo)

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Foreigners leaving Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign residents wait in line to obtain reentry permits in front of the Justice Ministry's Tokyo Immigration Bureau on March 17, 2011, before temporarily leaving the quake-hit country. (Kyodo)

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Hayabusa capsule analysis

SAPPORO, Japan - Reporters visit Hokkaido University in Sapporo, northern Japan, to view samples brought back from the asteroid Itokawa by the unmanned Japanese space probe Hayabusa on March 1, 2011. Seen at left back is a machine for analysis. A total of 13 institutes and eight teams have taken part in the project to analyze the samples. Hayabusa was launched in May 2003 and landed on the asteroid in September 2005. It returned to Earth while burning out upon reentry into atmosphere in June 2010 and the capsule containing the samples was recovered in a desert in southern Australia. (Kyodo)

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Chinese activist at Narita airport allowed to return home

NARITA, Japan - Chinese human rights activist Feng Zhenghu, who has been staying at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, since Nov. 4, 2009, after China rejected his reentry and sent him back to Japan, speaks to reporters at the airport on Feb. 2, 2010. Feng said he has been allowed to return home and now plans to return to Shanghai by the Lunar New Year's Day on Feb. 14. (Kyodo)

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Chinese activist at Narita airport allowed to return home

NARITA, Japan - Chinese human rights activist Feng Zhenghu, who has been staying at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, since Nov. 4, 2009, after China rejected his reentry and sent him back to Japan, speaks to reporters at the airport on Feb. 2, 2010. Feng said he has been allowed to return home and now plans to return to Shanghai by the Lunar New Year's Day on Feb. 14. (Kyodo)

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Astronauts return to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (R) is carried by compatriot astronaut Soichi Noguchi (L) and others from a Soyuz spacecraft on a plain near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 8:55 a.m. on Nov. 22, 2011, with the reentry capsule of the spacecraft shown in the background. The spacecraft carrying Furukawa and two other astronauts -- American Mike Fossum and Sergei Volkov of Russia -- landed at 8:25 a.m., bringing the three back to Earth after they completed a five-and-a-half-month mission aboard the International Space Station. (Kyodo)

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Astronauts return to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (C) is carried from the reentry capsule of a Soyuz spacecraft on a plain near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 8:55 a.m. on Nov. 22, 2011, after the spacecraft carrying Furukawa and two other astronauts -- American Mike Fossum and Sergei Volkov of Russia -- returned to Earth. The spacecraft landed at 8:25 a.m., bringing the three back to Earth after they completed a five-and-a-half-month mission aboard the International Space Station. (Kyodo)