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Rocket Girls
is a Japanese light novel series by Hōsuke Nojiri. Set in the Solomon Islands, it follows the exploits of high-school girl Yukari Morita, who is pressed into service as an astronaut by a private Japanese space company called the Solomon Space Association when it is unable to build a rocket that can lift the weight of an adult male. ''Rocket Girls'' was adapted into a 12-episode anime television series that aired between February and May 2007. It was produced with the assistance of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, which included astronaut Naoko Yamazaki voicing herself in Episode 7. Bandai Entertainment had the license and released a subtitled-only Complete Collection DVD on October 28, 2008, before it closed doors in 2011. Sentai Filmworks announced on September 27, 2018, that it will release the series on a subtitled-only SD Blu-ray, SD-BD set on January 15, 2019. Characters * Morita Yukari (Sendai Eri) * Matsuri (Nabatame Hitomi) * Miura Akane (Hasegawa Shizuka) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hōsuke Nojiri
(born 1961 in Mie Prefecture) is a Japanese science fiction writer. After a career as a CAD programmer and game designer, he was first published in 1992, the ''Creguian'' game novelization. He admires Arthur C. Clarke, and his own works are classified as hard science fiction, favoring planetary science as a theme. His '' Rocket Girls'' series deals with human spaceflight in a light novel form with hard SF backing; the reason that only girls are hired as astronauts in the novels is for their light weight. Awards *1999: S-F Magazine Readers Award Best Japanese Short Story for (short story version) *2000: Seiun Award Best Short Story of the Year for (short story version) *2002: Seiun Award Best Novel of the Year for *2003: Seiun Award Best Novel of the Year for (novel version) *2007: Seiun Award Best Short Story of the Year for ("A Furoshiki and Spider's Thread") *2008: Seiun Award Best Short Story of the Year for *2009: Seiun Award Best Short Story of the Year for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SD Blu-ray
SD Blu-ray disc is a Blu-ray disc on which the main feature is standard-definition video instead of the high-definition video found on typical Blu-ray discs. This is often due to the highest quality version of the feature content only being available in standard definition. This can include content that was shot on standard definition video, animation produced digitally in standard definition, or a television program that was shot on film but edited onto SD video with the original film subsequently lost or impractical to re-transfer. Standard definition content uses much less disc space than a pre-rendered upscale would, reducing the number of discs required, and the manufacturing costs in turn, for longer titles. The "SD on BD" release of Samurai Pizza Cats ''Samurai Pizza Cats'' is an American animated television adaptation of the anime series ''Kyatto Ninden Teyandee'' (''Cat Ninja Legend Teyandee''), produced by Tatsunoko Productions and Sotsu Agency. The series origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Spaceflight
Human spaceflight (also referred to as manned spaceflight or crewed spaceflight) is spaceflight with a crew or passengers aboard a spacecraft, often with the spacecraft being operated directly by the onboard human crew. Spacecraft can also be remotely operated from ground stations on Earth, or autonomously, without any direct human involvement. People trained for spaceflight are called astronauts (American or other), ''cosmonauts'' (Russian), or ''taikonauts'' (Chinese); and non-professionals are referred to as spaceflight participants or ''spacefarers''. The first human in space was Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who launched as part of the Soviet Union's Vostok program on 12 April 1961 at the beginning of the Space Race. On 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, as part of Project Mercury. Humans traveled to the Moon nine times between 1968 and 1972 as part of the United States' Apollo program, and have had a continuous presence in space for on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
