Explore Japanese Space Science with Google Maps

September 12th is 'Space Day' in Japan, and we are celebrating by releasing new, comprehensive Street View imagery for two of Japan’s top scientific institutions: the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan). With panoramic imagery in and around these locations now available via the Street View feature of Google Maps, space enthusiasts around the world have a more complete and accurate sense of what it’d be like to virtually swap places with an astronaut.

More here. (Thanks, Nate Tyler!)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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toadboy65

I took my kids to the Emerging Tech museum last time we were in Tokyo and it was wonderful.
- http://codeflow.org/ Florian Bösch
  
  It is pretty cool. You should take your kids to the swiss technorama and/or the “verkehrshaus” sometime, some of the same vibe, more stuff to play with.
benher

H2 Rocket closeups!!!