A short celebration following the (successful) first performance test with everything together on the spacecraft, in flight configuration. Left to right:
- Damian Audley (GSFC, but living at ISAS for a year, XRS scientist)
- Rich Kelley (GSFC, XRS Principal Investigator)
- Oscar Gonzalez (GSFC, XRS System Engineer)
- Kazuhisa Mitsuda (ISAS, XRS scientist)
- Kazuyo Mizushima (seated) (NEC, spacecraft engineer)
- Kenji Kitade (NEC, lead spacecraft engineer)
- Yoshi Ogawara (ISAS, ASTRO-E project manager)
- Hajime Inoue (ISAS, ASTRO-E project scientist)
- Ryuichi Fujimoto (seated)(ISAS, XRS scientist)
- Andy Szymkowiak (in tan shirt)(GSFC, XRS scientist)
- Jun-ichi Kinomura (NEC, spacecraft engineer)
- Takayuki Tohma (in blue shirt)(NEC, spacecraft engineer)
- Yoshitaka Ishisaki (Tokyo Metropolitan University, XRS scientist and Emacs guru)
- Masayuki Hirabayashi (SHI, Dewar lead engineer)
