3 astronauts including Japan's Noguchi lift off from Kazakhstan

3 astronauts including Japan's Noguchi lift off from Kazakhstan

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi waves as he leaves for Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, on Dec. 20, 2009, ahead of his departure for the International Space Station on Russia's Soyuz space capsule. The spacecraft carrying Noguchi and two other astronauts successfully reached orbit shortly after a predawn liftoff from the center on Dec. 21.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001139649
  • Registered date
  • 2009/12/21 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2009 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1633 × 1303 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 426.40(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Japanese developers unveil robot astronaut

    Japanese developers unveil robot astronaut

    TOKYO, Japan - Tomotaka Takahashi, a roboticist at the University of Tokyo, unveils Kirobo (L), a small talking humanoid robot, and a backup robot called Mirata, in Tokyo on June 26, 2013. Kirobo, which is 34 centimeters tall and weighs around 1 kilogram, will be sent to the International Space Station in August to communicate with astronauts stationed for long periods.
      Japanese developers unveil robot astronaut

      Japanese developers unveil robot astronaut

      TOKYO, Japan - Tomotaka Takahashi, a roboticist at the University of Tokyo, converses with Kirobo, a small talking humanoid robot, in Tokyo on June 26, 2013. The robot, which is 34 centimeters tall and weighs around 1 kilogram, will be sent to the International Space Station in August to communicate with astronauts stationed for long periods.
        Japanese developers unveil robot astronaut

        Japanese developers unveil robot astronaut

        TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a small talking humanoid robot unveiled by a team of Japanese researchers in Tokyo on June 26, 2013. The robot called Kirobo, which is 34 centimeters tall and weighs around 1 kilogram, will be sent to the International Space Station in August to communicate with astronauts stationed for long periods.
          Japanese developers unveil robot astronaut

          Japanese developers unveil robot astronaut

          TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a small talking humanoid robot unveiled by a team of Japanese researchers in Tokyo on June 26, 2013. The robot called Kirobo, which is 34 centimeters tall and weighs around 1 kilogram, will be sent to the International Space Station in August to communicate with astronauts stationed for long periods.
            Russian space capsule

            Russian space capsule

            ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Personnel on Nov. 22, 2011, retrieve a Russian space capsule which safely carried three astronauts -- Satoshi Furukawa of Japan, American Mike Fossum and Sergei Volkov of Russia -- home from the International Space Station on a plain near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, the same day.
              Space crew to board Soyuz

              Space crew to board Soyuz

              BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (front), Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov (C) and U.S. astronaut Michael Fossum (middle row L) wave as they leave a hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on June 7, 2011, before boarding a Russian Soyuz spacecraft early the next morning bound for the International Space Station.
                Space crew to board Soyuz

                Space crew to board Soyuz

                BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - (From L) U.S. astronaut Michael Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa wave as they leave a hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on June 7, 2011, before boarding a Russian Soyuz spacecraft early the next morning bound for the International Space Station.
                  Message of support from Houston

                  Message of support from Houston

                  TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa speaks in a teleconference from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, on a television screen at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tokyo office on March 22, 2011. Furukawa, who is slated to launch a five-and-a-half-month-long mission at the International Space Station in May, sent a message of support for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, saying, ''I want children in Tohoku (northeastern Japan) to know that if you make efforts little by little, things will be better tomorrow than today, and better the day after tomorrow than tomorrow, and those efforts will accumulate and become a big power.''
                    Astronaut Wakata to be 1st Japanese captain of ISS

                    Astronaut Wakata to be 1st Japanese captain of ISS

                    TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata speaks in a teleconference telecast from Houston, Texas, at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tokyo office on Feb. 17, 2011. Wakata will stay at the International Space Station for six months starting at the end of 2013 and will serve as the first Japanese captain of the ISS in the last two months of the mission.
                      Astronaut Wakata to be 1st Japanese captain of ISS

                      Astronaut Wakata to be 1st Japanese captain of ISS

                      TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata speaks in a teleconference telecast from Houston, Texas, at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tokyo office on Feb. 17, 2011. Wakata will stay at the International Space Station for six months starting at the end of 2013 and will serve as the first Japanese captain of the ISS in the last two months of the mission.