Mansfield Alumni Fellow Organizes Aerospace Workshop for NASA, JAXA

April 11, 2019

Left to Right: Takayuki Kawai, (Head, Strategic Planning and Industrial Promotion Div., JAXA); Michael Fletcher (MFP 21), Hiroyuki Iwamoto (Director, Business Development and Industrial Relations Dept., JAXA); Hiroshi Nakayama (Associate Senior Administrator, Strategic Planning and Industrial Promotion Div., JAXA)

Drawing on his Fellowship experience, Michael Fletcher (MFP 21) recently helped organize a workshop at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley between NASA, JAXA, and several U.S. and Japanese industrial companies from the aerospace sector. Using connections made during his placement with JAXA, he assisted in gathering approximately 90 individuals, about 40 of whom were Japanese. Fletcher, a member of the Mansfield U.S.-Japan Space Forum, was also joined by two other Forum participants. The workshop covered topics of space science, exploration, and enabling technologies for future space