ARCHIVED In Space We Are All Equal: In Conversation with Naoko Yamazaki

Date
Monday 5 February 2024
Time
12.00 - 1.00pm (GMT)
9.00 - 10.00pm (JST)

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In 2020 Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki was interviewed for the Tokyo Weekender on equality affirming that 'In space we're all equal''. In this online fireside chat with Bill Emmott, author of Japan’s Far More Female Future, Yamazaki will reflect on the lessons she learned in striving for her professional goals as a working mother. 

Naoko Yamazaki is an aerospace engineer and an astronaut.  In April 2010, she was onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as part of the crew of STS-131, an assembly and resupply mission to the International Space Station. Since retiring from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) in 2011, Yamazaki served as a member of the Japan Space Policy Committee that is part of the government’s Cabinet Office (2012-2022) and its subcommittees (2012-present). Yamazaki is also the representative director of Space Port Japan Association, an alliance of space corporations and local governments with interest in space. Its aim is to establish multiple spaceports in Japan as Asian hubs. In 2020, Yamazaki joined the council of the Earthshot Prize, a global environment prize intended to inspire a decade of action to repair the planet. She grew up in Chiba prefecture of Japan, close to Tokyo. Her degree in aerospace engineering was from the University of Tokyo.

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