Comments on: Glowing Spacefish Join Crew Aboard the ISS http://blogs.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/2012/11/glowing-spacefish-join-crew-aboard-the-iss/ AirSpaceMag.com Blog Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Akiko Niizeki http://blogs.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/2012/11/glowing-spacefish-join-crew-aboard-the-iss/comment-page-1/#comment-7801 Akiko Niizeki Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:02:03 +0000 http://blogs.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/?p=21155#comment-7801 Dear Smithsonian folks, Hello, I am Akiko Niizeki of JAXA Public Affairs Office, in charge of ISS website. We are really glad to find your article about one of our space experiments, Medaka Osteoclast, whose principal Investigator is Prof. Akira Kudo. Let me tell you the latest status about Medaka fish aboard the Kibo. Our astronaut, Aki Hoshide completed the Chemical fixation of the Medaka fish, that will be brought back to the Earth aboard Soyuz spacecraft(31S) with Aki himself next week. The remaining 10 Medaka fish has been moving actively inside aquarium. They seem to be really cheerful. JAXA will continue to post various photos and videos as soon as they will get authorized by our animal ethics board. Therefore, we hope your continuous interest and cooperation. If you have any question, please feel free to contact me any time. Thank you for your interest again. Just as your reference, our website to inform the status of Medaka are as follows; http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kiboexp/news/medaka_starts.html http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kiboexp/ Akiko Niizeki Associate Senior Administrator Program Management and Integration Department Human Space Systems and Utilization Mission Directorate Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency tel: +81-50-3362-5273 fax: +81-29-868-3950 Dear Smithsonian folks,
Hello, I am Akiko Niizeki of JAXA Public Affairs Office, in charge of ISS website.
We are really glad to find your article about one of our space experiments, Medaka Osteoclast, whose principal Investigator is Prof. Akira Kudo.
Let me tell you the latest status about Medaka fish aboard the Kibo. Our astronaut, Aki Hoshide completed the Chemical fixation of the Medaka fish, that will be brought back to the Earth aboard Soyuz spacecraft(31S) with Aki himself next week. The remaining 10 Medaka fish has been moving actively inside aquarium. They seem to be really cheerful.
JAXA will continue to post various photos and videos as soon as they will get authorized by our animal ethics board.
Therefore, we hope your continuous interest and cooperation.
If you have any question, please feel free to contact me any time.
Thank you for your interest again.

Just as your reference, our website to inform the status of Medaka are as follows;
http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kiboexp/news/medaka_starts.html
http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kiboexp/

Akiko Niizeki
Associate Senior Administrator
Program Management and Integration Department
Human Space Systems and Utilization Mission Directorate
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
tel: +81-50-3362-5273
fax: +81-29-868-3950

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