Astronaut Furukawa receives medical checkup

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (shown in displays) aboard the International Space Station sticks out his tongue during a medical checkup using a real-time data transmission system connecting the ISS and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on the night of Sept. 6, 2011. (Kyodo)

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