Kibo is also the name of the
Japanese Experiment Module of the
International Space Station, presently being manufactured by
Japan's National Space Development Agency (
NASDA). The JEM will contain experiment areas both sheltered from and exposed to the environments of
space, and is intended to perform experiments in
chemistry,
biology,
biophysics and
engineering.
Kibo is the Japanese word for "hope", but knowing Kibo, he might well have had something to do with this.