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Takuya Onishi (lower R) communicates with fellow Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui (on screen), currently on a six-month mission at the International Space Station, during an event in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2025.

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Astronaut Onishi meets press in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 3 Kyodo - Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 3, 2025, following rehabilitation in the United States after his five-month space mission. Onishi returned to the earth in August after serving as commander of the International Space Station. (Kyodo)

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Astronaut Onishi meets press in Tokyo

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 3, 2025, following rehabilitation in the United States after his five-month space mission. Onishi returned to the earth in August after serving as commander of the International Space Station.

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Astronaut Onishi meets press in Tokyo

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 3, 2025, following rehabilitation in the United States after his five-month space mission. Onishi returned to the earth in August after serving as commander of the International Space Station.

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Astronaut Onishi meets press in Tokyo

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 3, 2025, following rehabilitation in the United States after his five-month space mission. Onishi returned to the earth in August after serving as commander of the International Space Station.

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Astronaut Onishi meets press in Tokyo

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 3, 2025, following rehabilitation in the United States after his five-month space mission. Onishi returned to the earth in August after serving as commander of the International Space Station.

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashdown

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 73 aboard the International Space Station. Mandatory Photo by Keegan Barber / NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashdown

Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON after he, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 73 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Photo by (NASA/Keegan Barber)\ Mandatory Photo by Keegan Barber / NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashdown

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 73 aboard the International Space Station. Mandatory Photo by Keegan Barber / NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashdown

NASA astronaut Anne McClain is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON after she, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 73 aboard the International Space Station. Mandatory Photo by Keegan Barber / NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashdown

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON after she, NASA astronaut Anne McClain, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 73 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Photo by (NASA/Keegan Barber) Mandatory Photo by Keegan Barber / NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashdown

Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, left, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON shortly after having landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 73 aboard the International Space Station. Mandatory Photo by Keegan Barber / NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashdown

JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON after he, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 73 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Photo by (NASA/Keegan Barber) Mandatory Photo by Keegan Barber / NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Space event at Osaka expo

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi, now on a half-year mission aboard the International Space Station, is projected on a screen at the World Exposition in Osaka during an event connecting the expo venue with the ISS on July 10, 2025.

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Space event at Osaka expo

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi, now on a half-year mission aboard the International Space Station, is projected on a screen at the World Exposition in Osaka during an event connecting the expo venue with the ISS on July 10, 2025.

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Online talks between PM Ishiba and astronaut Onishi

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) talks from his official residence in Tokyo on June 30, 2025, with Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi (on screens), who is aboard the International Space Station on a half-year mission. (Pool photo)

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Online talks between PM Ishiba and astronaut Onishi

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (R) talks from his official residence in Tokyo on June 30, 2025, with Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi (on screen), who is aboard the International Space Station on a half-year mission. (Pool photo)

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Astronaut Onishi blasts off on mission

Astronaut Takuya Onishi waves to his family before boarding SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 14, 2025, on a mission to the International Space Station.

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Astronaut Onishi blasts off on mission

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 14, 2025, carrying Takuya Onishi and three fellow crew members bound for the International Space Station.

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Japanese astronaut Onishi

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi gives an interview in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2024. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced on Dec. 2 that he will serve as commander at the International Space Station when he heads to the ISS aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule in February 2025 at the earliest, becoming the third Japanese to assume the post.

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Japanese astronaut Onishi

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi gives an interview in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2024. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced on Dec. 2 that he will serve as commander at the International Space Station when he heads to the ISS aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule in February 2025 at the earliest, becoming the third Japanese to assume the post.

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Japanese astronaut Onishi

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi gives an interview in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2024. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced on Dec. 2 that he will serve as commander at the International Space Station when he heads to the ISS aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule in February 2025 at the earliest, becoming the third Japanese to assume the post.

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Japanese astronaut Onishi to assume ISS commander

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi gives an interview in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2024. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced on Dec. 2 that he will serve as commander at the International Space Station when he heads to the ISS aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule in February 2025 at the earliest, becoming the third Japanese to assume the post.

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Japanese astronaut Onishi

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 27 Kyodo - Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi poses for photos after a press conference at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency office in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2024. Onishi will be dispatched to the International Space Station for six months as early as February 2025 for various tasks including science experiments. (Kyodo)

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Japanese astronaut Onishi

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi poses for photos after a press conference at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency office in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2024. Onishi will be dispatched to the International Space Station for six months as early as February 2025 for various tasks including science experiments.

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Japanese astronaut Onishi

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi speaks at a press conference at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency office in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2024. Onishi will be dispatched to the International Space Station for six months as early as February 2025 for various tasks including science experiments.

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Japanese astronaut Onishi

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi speaks at a press conference at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency office in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2024. Onishi will be dispatched to the International Space Station for six months as early as February 2025 for various tasks including science experiments.

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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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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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Japanese astronaut Onishi

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi speaks during a press conference, broadcast to Tokyo by video link, in an undersea facility off the coast of Florida on Oct. 25, 2011. Onishi, who is undergoing training at the facility that simulates the environment in space, expressed his wish to undertake missions on the International Space Station.

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Japan taps 3 new astronauts

TOKYO, Japan - (from L) Kimiya Yui, Takuya Onishi and Norishige Kanai attend a press conference in Tokyo on July 27, 2011, one day after the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency certified them as astronauts for the International Space Station. The three Japanese astronauts have completed all their basic training requirements in the U.S. and elsewhere. Seen in front is a model of the ISS.

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Japan taps 3 new astronauts

TOKYO, Japan - (from L) Takuya Onishi, Kimiya Yui, and Norishige Kanai hold a model of the International Space Station during a press conference in Tokyo on July 27, 2011, one day after the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency certified them as astronauts for the ISS. The three Japanese astronauts have completed all their basic training requirements in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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Japan taps 3 new astronauts

TOKYO, Japan - Takuya Onishi attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 27, 2011, one day after the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency certified Onishi and two other men as astronauts for the International Space Station. The three Japanese astronauts have completed all their basic training requirements in the U.S. and elsewhere. Seen in front is a model of the ISS.

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Japanese astronaut candidates join JAXA

TOKYO, Japan - Two Japanese astronaut candidates -- (from L to R) Takuya Onishi and Kimiya Yui -- join the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in an entrance ceremony in Tokyo on April 1.

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Astronaut candidate Onishi makes his last commercial flight

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Takuya Onishi (C), an All Nippon Airways co-pilot who has been selected as an astronaut candidate by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, receives flowers from his colleague at Matsuyama airport in Ehime Prefecture before making his last commercial flight between Tokyo and Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture. The 33-year-old Onish's father Koichi (R), 62, and mother Kazuko, 57, were invited to board the flight to Tokyo's Haneda from Matsuyama, their hometown.

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2 Japanese from ANA, Defense Ministry selected to be astronauts

TOKYO, Japan - Takuya Onishi (L), 33, and Kimiya Yui (R), 39, who have been selected as Japanese astronaut candidates by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, show off a model of the international space station ''Kibo'' during a news conference at the JAXA Tokyo office on Feb. 25. Onishi is an All Nippon Airways Co. employee and Yui a Defense Ministry official.

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Recruiting future astronauts

Japanese astronauts (from L) Kimiya Yui, Naoko Yamazaki and Takuya Onishi gather in Tokyo for an online event on Dec. 1, 2021, urging people to apply to become astronauts.

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2 Japanese from ANA, Defense Ministry selected to be astronauts

TOKYO, Japan - Takuya Onishi (L), 33, and Kimiya Yui (R), 39, who have been selected as Japanese astronaut candidates by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, show off a model of the international space station ''Kibo'' during a news conference at the JAXA Tokyo office on Feb. 25. Onishi is an All Nippon Airways Co. employee and Yui a Defense Ministry official. (Kyodo)

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Astronaut candidate Onishi makes his last commercial flight

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Takuya Onishi (C), an All Nippon Airways co-pilot who has been selected as an astronaut candidate by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, receives flowers from his colleague at Matsuyama airport in Ehime Prefecture before making his last commercial flight between Tokyo and Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture. The 33-year-old Onish's father Koichi (R), 62, and mother Kazuko, 57, were invited to board the flight to Tokyo's Haneda from Matsuyama, their hometown. (Kyodo)

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Japanese astronaut candidates join JAXA

TOKYO, Japan - Two Japanese astronaut candidates -- (from L to R) Takuya Onishi and Kimiya Yui -- join the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in an entrance ceremony in Tokyo on April 1. (Kyodo)

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Spacecraft with Japan, U.S., Russia crew docks with ISS

High school friends of Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi watch a display showing the docking of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Onishi, along with Anatoli Ivanishin of Russia and American Kate Rubins, and the International Space Station, at the RKA Mission Control Center near Moscow on July 9, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Spacecraft with Japan, U.S., Russia crew docks with ISS

Photo shows Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, carrying Onishi along with Anatoli Ivanishin of Russia and American Kate Rubins, docked with the International Space Station past 1 p.m. Japan time on July 9, 2016. The three astronauts will stay in the ISS for four months to conduct experiments. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz spacecraft launched to ISS

Photo taken at Tokyo's Haneda airport on July 7, 2016, shows a former colleague of Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi welling up as she watches a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying Onishi, Anatoly Ivanishin of Russia, and Kathleen Rubins of the United States being launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz spacecraft launched to ISS

Photo taken at Tokyo's Haneda airport on July 7, 2016, shows former colleagues of Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi from All Nippon Airways Co. cheering as a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying Onishi, Anatoly Ivanishin of Russia, and Kathleen Rubins of the United States is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz spacecraft set for launch to ISS

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi talks with his family through the window in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on July 7, 2016, before the launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station for a nearly four-month mission. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz spacecraft set for launch to ISS

(From front to back) Astronauts Anatoly Ivanishin of Russia, Kathleen Rubins of the United States and Takuya Onishi of Japan wave to a crowd of people in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on July 7, 2016, before going aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket bound for the International Space Station on a nearly four-month mission. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz spacecraft set for launch to ISS

(From L to R) Astronauts Kathleen Rubins of the United States, Anatoly Ivanishin of Russia and Takuya Onishi of Japan wave to a crowd of people in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on July 7, 2016, before going aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket bound for the International Space Station on a nearly four-month mission. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz spacecraft launched to ISS

A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying astronauts Anatoly Ivanishin of Russia, Kathleen Rubins of the United States and Takuya Onishi of Japan, is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 7, 2016, to the International Space Station on a nearly four-month mission. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz spacecraft launched to ISS

A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying astronauts Anatoly Ivanishin of Russia, Kathleen Rubins of the United States and Takuya Onishi of Japan, is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 7, 2016, to the International Space Station on a nearly four-month mission. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz spacecraft launched to ISS

A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying astronauts Anatoly Ivanishin of Russia, Kathleen Rubins of the United States and Takuya Onishi of Japan, is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 7, 2016, to the International Space Station on a nearly four-month mission. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo