Space Faculty of Singapore will host Axiom Space CTO Astronaut Koichi Wakata on June 12. Space Faculty CEO Lynette Tan notes the “Galactic Mindset” as it produces International Space Challenge, with thousands of participants from 50+ countries, and works with JAXA and ESA for ISS experiments. Singapore established National Space Agency of Singapore, NSAS, April 1st with mission statement “Advance space capabilities to strengthen how Singapore and the world lives, moves, connects and thrives.” It supersedes Office for Space Technology & Industry and seeks to develop industry, technology, capability, talent and workforce for space, and to join the international space community via partnerships and in determining policy and governance. Singapore has ~2,000 professionals and researchers working in ~70 space companies and at National University, Nanyang Tech U, A*STAR, its polytechnic schools and DSO National Laboratories. The Space Technology Development Programme, funded with S$210M, has focus areas including Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), optical Earth observation and Quantum Key Distribution (QKD). Singapore participates in UN COPUOS, ASEAN Sub-Committee on Space Technology and Applications (SCOSA), Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF) and has signed the Artemis Accords. Singapore’s first ground station and satellite were in 1971 and 1998, respectively. (Image Credits: )