Astronaut Furukawa in Moscow

Astronaut Furukawa in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa attends a press conference at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center in a suburb of Moscow on April 13, 2011. Furukawa, who is scheduled to stay at the International Space Station from June, said he would like to directly communicate with people affected by the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster in Japan from space.

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