At NASA's Kennedy Space Center Keiji Tachikawa get a close look of the cockpit of an orbiter in the Orbiter Processing Facility.

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Dr. Keiji Tachikawa (left), president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, and Kuniaki Shiraki (right), JAXA director with the International Space Station, get a close look of the cockpit of an orbiter in the Orbiter Processing Facility. JAXA is one of NASA's international partners in the development and operation of the space station. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann