Astronaut Onishi to travel to space in 2016

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Nov. 29, 2013, that Onishi will travel into space for the first time around July 2016 in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

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