Today we can see human going to the space thanks to the technology. However, the world that anyone can go to the space safely and easily, at low cost and with no training, hasn’t been realized yet.
The good news is that there is upcoming technology that will solve this problem – the Space Elevator System.
There are still many problems to get over, and his dream of “traveling to the universe” seems to remain unfulfilled during his life. Nevertheless, he is working on its research and development.
There is a message he wants to tell, to the younger generation who are going to see the dream becoming true in near future.
Born in Shiga Prefecture in 1958, now living in Hamamatsu City.
Study of Space Engineering / Professor of engineering, Shizuoka University
Working in Shizuoka University from 1989 after his career in space development project at Toshiba Corporation.
Mr. Yamagiwa was born in 1958 in Shiga Prefecture and lives in Hamamatsu city.
He is a pioneer of research on “Space Elevator” which is expected to realize as a transportation between the earth and the space.
Mr. Yamagiwa has been dreaming to travel to space since he was a
primary school student. After finishing his doctor’s degree in aeronautics at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, The University of Tokyo, he entered TOSHIBA Corporation to work on propulsion control in the space development division.
He was a lecturer at Junior College of Engineering, Shizuoka University (1989) , an assistant professor at Shizuoka University (1994) , and has been in the present post since 2005.
His ambition “I want to create a system in which everyone can travel to space” in his university days made him aim for space engineering. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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so impressive lecture!!!