NASA announces that the return of Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, who has been staying at the International Space Station for a long time, has been postponed due to the influence of the weather, and it is the afternoon of the 9th of Japan time. bottom.
Four astronauts, including Akihiko Hoshide, a Japanese astronaut who has been staying at the International Space Station since April, will leave the space station before dawn on the 8th of Japan time and return to Earth on the night of the 8th. It was planned.
However, according to NASA, it is expected that the wind will blow strongly in the sea area at the landing point, so we decided to postpone the return.
In the new return schedule, the spacecraft on which Mr. Hoshide and his colleagues left the space station after 4 am on the 9th of Japan time, and about eight and a half hours later, at 0:33 pm on the 9th, the coast of Florida, USA It means that it will land on the sea and return.
Hoshide's return was originally scheduled to leave the space station on the 5th of this month and head for the earth, but due to the postponement of the launch of the replacement aviator, the return was also postponed to the 8th, this time It will be the second postponement.
This is Hoshide's third flight, which lasts more than half a year in space for about 200 days. He was the second Japanese captain of the International Space Station, and he himself was 4 We are conducting the second extravehicular activity.