Astronaut Onishi to travel to space in 2016

Astronaut Onishi to travel to space in 2016

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2013, shows Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi speaking via teleconference in Houston following the announcement by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency that Onishi will travel into space for the first time around July 2016 in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

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