TOKYO, July 23 – RIA Novosti, Yekaterina Plyasunkova. Japanese Prime Minister expressed the hope that Japanese astronaut Kimia Yui will play an active role in the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a new international crew.
Earlier Thursday, the spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-17M” with a crew of Oleg Kononenko (Roscosmos), Kimia Yui (JAXA) and Chella Lindgren (NASA) at the estimated time automatically docked with the ISS. Leakage detection compartments of the ship, move to United nutrition transition crew habitation module, removal and drying of the suits, as well as the opening of the transfer hatches scheduled from 06.10 to 07.25 MSK.
“I wish he (Kimia Yui), using a different experience gained, certainly played an active role in the cosmos. We will wait for this “, – quotes agency Kyodo word Shinzo Abe.
Kimia Yui conduct a series of experiments to study “dark matter” of the universe. In addition, it intends to prepare sushi and treat teammates on the expedition.
Now in orbit the crew working the 44th space mission which included a space champion, crew station Russian Gennaly Padalka and flight engineer cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who will spend a year in orbit.
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