Rocket Girls

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Rocket Girls
ロケットガール
Demographic	Shōnen
Genre	Adventure, Comedy, Science fiction
Light novel
Author	Hōsuke Nojiri
Publisher	Fujimi Shobo
TV anime
Director	Hiroshi Aoyama
Studio	Mook Animation
Original run	21 February 2007 – ongoing
Episodes	12

Rocket Girls (ロケットガール, Rocket Girls^?) is a light novel written by Hōsuke Nojiri. It follows the exploits of high-school girl Yukari Morita, who is pressed into service as an astronaut by the Solomon Space Agency when it is unable to build a rocket that can lift the weight of an adult male.

Rocket Girls is adapted as a 12-episode anime television series that began airing in February 2007.^[1] It was produced with the assistance of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, which included astronaut Naoko Yamazaki voicing herself in Episode 7.^[2]

[edit] Episode Listing

#	Title	Original airdate

1	"Mission: 01 - Destiny" (ディスティニィ)	February 21, 2007
Yukari Morita secretly visits the Solomon Islands during summer vacation to search for her missing father, Hiroshi, who disappeared on her mother's honeymoon. Meanwhile, the Solomon Islands Space Association (SSA) latest rocket, the LS7 has another launch failure. If they don't succeed soon, their budget will get canceled. The SSA director, Nasu Tian Hoon, meets Yukari after tracking down an escaped astronaut. He talks her into becoming an astronaut.
2	"Mission: 02 - Assembly" (アッセンブリ)	--, 2007
Nasu offers to help Yukari search for her father while she works for him as an astronaut, telling her "It's so simple even monkeys can do it!" Her acceptance is followed by embarrassing medical examinations, continuous training, live-fire weapons training, and the discovery she has to wear a 2 millimeters's thick spacesuit skin! During her survival jungle training she finds a local tribe, with a leader who is Japanese!
3	"Mission: 03 - Launch Pad" (ランチパッド)	--, 2007
Yukari finds her father, Hiroshi (Hiroshi), but when she threatens to take him home to Japan at gunpoint, he promises to do so, but only after SSA has two successful manned space flights. She also discovers that she has a sister! SSA director, Nasu Tian Hoon sees the sister, and quickly recruits her to be Yukari's backup astronaut.
4	"Mission: 04 - Count Down" (カウントダウン)	--, 2007
5	"Mission: 05 - Ignition" (イグニッション)	--, 2007
6	"Mission: 06 - Control" (コントロール)	--, 2007
7	"Mission: 07 - Gravity" (グラヴィティ)	--, 2007
8	"Mission: 08 - Separation" (セパレーション)	--, 2007
9	"Mission: 09 - Kick Motor" (キックモーター)	--, 2007
10	"Mission: 10 - Orbiter" (オービター)	--, 2007
11	"Mission: 11 - Turn Start" (ターンスタート)	--, 2007
12	"Mission: 12 - Rocket Girls" (ロケットガール)	--, 2007