Astronaut Noguchi 1st Asian to head space explorers' group

BEIJING, China - Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi lectures at a Japanese school in Beijing on Sept. 15, 2014. He was selected as head of the Huston, Texas-based Association of Space Explorers as the first Asian to assume the post.

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