Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of JAXAtalks on a satellite phone in a chair outside the Soyuz Capsule just minutes after he and Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA, landed in their Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft in Kazakhstan in May 2014.

Tuesday’s briefing begins with Japan formally agreeing to stick with the ISS through 2024 and the latest of SpaceX sticking last night’s unprecedented landing.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...