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Japanese astronaut Kimia Yui after spending 142 days in orbit along with Russian and American colleagues, wanted to be a bridge, a “bridge” in relations between Japan and Russia in space. Moreover, the Russian language it is now learned.
«I learned the Russian language and would like to further play the role of bridge between the two countries in the field of space,” – said Yui at a press conference in Star City, the it was said in Russian.
Astronaut offered to “tomorrow to go into space,” but is forced to comply with the order, so now he “supports the following Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi».
When asked what his most memorable of space watches, Yui called the moment of successful docking of the cargo ship from Japan’s robotic arm.
The crew of the manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-17M” as part of Oleg Kononenko (Roscosmos ) Kimii Yui (JAXA) and Chella Lindgren (NASA) has returned from the International Space Station (ISS) December 11, 2015.
Recall that the space for the crew watch began in July 2015. Total on board the ISS astronauts worked 142 days. During this time they have been delivered more than 50 scientific experiments. Most of them have important applications in different fields of science and medicine.
December 15 at the ISS went to the next crew of Yuri Malenchenko (Roscosmos), Timothy Kopra (NASA) and Timothy Peake (ESA).
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