Astronauts train underwater

Astronauts train underwater

Astronauts set to go on space missions for the proposed International Space Station (ISS) undergo weightlessness training at the Tsukuba Space Center, northeast of Tokyo, on Sept. 25. Soichi Noguchi (C), 33, who has just returned from training in Russia, participated in underwater simulations of extravehicular activity at the 10-meter-deep pool of the National Space Development Agency of Japan.

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