Astronaut Noguchi to board the spacecraft "Crew Dragon" March 31 12:28
MEXT has announced that Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi has decided to board the first U.S.-based spacecraft "Crew Dragon" in operation.
Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi (54) is planning a third space flight, and is considering a spacecraft on which JAXA = Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and NASA = the United States Aerospace Agency. Was.
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology said on October 31 that Soichi Noguchi will be able to board the first spacecraft “Crew Dragon” under development by an American private company “Space X” with three American astronauts. We announced that we were decided.
The "Crew Dragon" has been successfully piloted unmanned, and will enter the operational phase after a flight test with two American astronauts on board. The launch date for Unit 1 is undecided And
Mr. Noguchi was born in Yokohama, and went to space on the American Space Shuttle in 2005, and was involved in assembling the International Space Station. In 2009, he rode Soyuz in Russia for five and a half months to the International Space Station. After a long stay, the third space flight is expected to be the first Japanese astronaut to board a private spacecraft.
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Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minami Hagiuda said at a press conference, "Astronaut Noguchi has a track record of boarding both the space shuttle and Soyuz in the past. I hope we can do great things with it. "