Caroline Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Japan, center, tours the Tanegashima Space Center Visitors Center with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) President, Naoki Okumura, right, on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, Tanegashima, Japan.
Caroline Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Japan, center, tours the Tanegashima Space Center Visitors Center with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) President, Naoki Okumura, right, on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, Tanegashima, Japan. The Ambassador is visiting the space center and hopes to witness the planned launch of a Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying the NASA-JAXA, Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory. Once launched, the GPM spacecraft will collect information that unifies data from an international network of existing and future satellites to map global rainfall and snowfall every three hours.
Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
