Jun Sawada, Chairman of Japan’s National Space Policy Committee (NSPC), left, speaks alongside Ambassador of Japan to the United States Shigeo Yamada, center, and Yosuke Kaneko, First Secretary for the Embassy of Japan, during meeting with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

Jun Sawada, Chairman of Japan’s National Space Policy Committee (NSPC), left, speaks alongside Ambassador of Japan to the United States Shigeo Yamada, center, and Yosuke Kaneko, First Secretary for the Embassy of Japan, during meeting with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, right, speaks with, from left to right, Madoka Ikeda, Secretary of Chairman, Jun Sawada, Chairman of Japan’s National Space Policy Committee (NSPC), Ambassador of Japan to the United States Shigeo Yamada, and Yosuke Kaneko, First Secretary for the Embassy of Japan, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

Jun Sawada, Chairman of Japan’s National Space Policy Committee (NSPC), second from left, speaks alongside Madoka Ikeda, Secretary of Chairman, left, Ambassador of Japan to the United States Shigeo Yamada, second from right, and Yosuke Kaneko, First Secretary for the Embassy of Japan, right, during a meeting with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

A lunar sample collected during the Apollo 17 mission is seen in the foreground during a meeting between Jun Sawada, Chairman of Japan’s National Space Policy Committee (NSPC), and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

Jun Sawada, Chairman of Japan’s National Space Policy Committee (NSPC), third from right, speaks during a meeting with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

Jun Sawada, Chairman of Japan’s National Space Policy Committee (NSPC), third from right, speaks during a meeting with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

Jun Sawada, Chairman of Japan’s National Space Policy Committee (NSPC), right, speaks during a meeting with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)