Soichi Noguchi Bound for the International Space Station
Soichi Noguchi Bound for the International Space Station
22 December 2009
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Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov (L) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi pose after testing his space suit at Baikonur cosmodrome.
Soichi Noguchi, 44, will stay at the ISS for about five months through next May in his second space trip following one in 2005 as a crew member of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery.
He is the second Japanese astronaut to become a Soyuz crew member after Toyohiro Akiyama, 67, was carried into space to report from the capsule for Tokyo Broadcasting System Television in 1990.
Source: AP
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