ISS - "We need milk, eggs, toilet paper"

HTV/H-IIB Successfully Launched!! The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) Demonstration Flight aboard the H-IIB Launch Vehicle Test Flight (H-IIB TF1) at 2:01:46 a.m. on September 11, 2009 (Japan Standard Time, JST) from the Tanegashima Space Center. The launch vehicle flew smoothly, and, at about 15 minutes and 6 seconds after liftoff, the separation of the HTV Demonstration Flight was confirmed. Speedy was there !!! Well, not there, there in Japan, but in the JAXA Washington DC Office. For more info - http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/h2bf1/index_e.html

“The report of NSF funding system”

Takakuni Ikeda is the hardest working man in Japan. In the Japanese government actually. And now he is the hardest working man in America. He is here in the USA as a NSF Fellow. I am always impressed by the high level of service the Japanese civil servant brings to his nation. They work late into the night and get back to work in the wee hours of the morning.
O-tsukarasama-desita Japan! Mr. Aso, are you listening? Either give everyone a raise or let them go home at 5:00 pm! God bless, America and Japan. Read his special report "The report of NSF funding system"

http://www.zam.go.jp/pdf/00000321.pdf(It helps if you can read Japanese)

The boring title was forced on Speedy by Mr. Ikeda. And also, this story is behind the times, as Aso is no longer PM ... the Alien is' bout to become PM.