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The Go board that marked a deadline - and forced him to stay in orbit
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The Go board that marked a deadline - and forced him to stay in orbit
In this episode, we follow Koichi Wakata from his first shuttle mission through the moments when a simple, approved Go board became a deliberate statement of intent in orbit. The episode traces the decisions, missions and engineering choices that set the path for his long career in space and asks how one small gesture can shape a lifetime of missions.
Person: Koichi Wakata
Date: January 9, 1996
Location: Space Shuttle Endeavour middeck, 270 miles above the Pacific
Event: STS-72 Go Space game aboard shuttle; later STS-92 and STS-119 missions
Topic: deliberate mission planning linking cultural gesture to long-term astronaut career
- He packed a specially designed microgravity Go set, approved and manifested for STS-72, before his first spaceflight.
- At 32, a structural engineer and JAL stress analyst, Wakata used the Go board as a planned cultural statement, not a pastime.
- On STS-92 in 2000 he operated the robotic arm to install the Z1 truss and PMA-3, performing hands-on ISS assembly work.
- The Z1 truss he helped install remains a load-bearing part of the station, connecting his engineering work to long-term infrastructure.
- On STS-119 in 2009 he stayed aboard the ISS when the shuttle undocked, shifting from shuttle crew to long-duration station presence.
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