Japanese astronaut Wakata to stay 3 months on Int'l Space Station

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata (R), who will stay on the International Space Station for about three months beginning in the fall of 2008, smiles at a press conference in Houston, Texas, on Feb. 12, flanked by his colleague Soichi Noguchi,who has been chosen to be Wakata's replacement should he be unable to perform.

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