Astronaut Furukawa training in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa takes part in training 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 at a press conference on the same day that 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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