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Astronauts: Past and Present

Cleveland, OH - August 29, 2008 -- An all-star gathering of legendary American astronauts appeared in Cleveland, Ohio on August 29, 2008 to celebrate the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) 50th anniversary. John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, Jim Lovell, veteran of two Apollo missions, and Kathryn Sullivan, the first woman to walk in space joined 15 other astronauts from Ohio..From left to right in the front row are Kenneth Cameron, Robert Springer, Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, James Lovell and Kathryn Sullivan. .From left to right in the middle row are Nancy Currie, Terence Henricks, Ronald Sega, Curt Brown, Gregory Harbaugh, Thomas Hennen and Carl Walz..From left to right in the back row are Mary Weber, Michael Foreman, Michael Gernhardt, Kevin Kregel, Donald Thomas and Suni Williams..Photo by NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Soyuz launch to ISS

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, Dec. 19 Kyodo - Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai smiles before boarding a Russian Soyuz spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 17, 2017. The spacecraft was successfully launched to the International Space Station later in the day with two other astronauts from Russia and the United States on board.

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Soyuz launch to ISS

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, Dec. 19 Kyodo - Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai clenches his fist before boarding a Russian Soyuz spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 17, 2017. The spacecraft was successfully launched to the International Space Station later in the day with two other astronauts from Russia and the United States on board. (Pool photo)

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide is pictured during a press conference at Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow on Feb. 28, 2012, ahead of the launch later this year of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that will carry him and two other astronauts to the International Space Station.

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide takes part in a training session at Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow on Feb. 28, 2012, ahead of the launch later this year of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that will carry him and two other astronauts to the International Space Station.

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Astronauts return to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (C) is carried from the reentry capsule of a Soyuz spacecraft on a plain near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 8:55 a.m. on Nov. 22, 2011, after the spacecraft carrying Furukawa and two other astronauts -- American Mike Fossum and Sergei Volkov of Russia -- returned to Earth. The spacecraft landed at 8:25 a.m., bringing the three back to Earth after they completed a five-and-a-half-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

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Astronauts return to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (C) is seen smiling at 8:56 a.m. on Nov. 22, 2011, while being carried from a Soyuz spacecraft on a plain near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. The spacecraft carrying Furukawa and two other astronauts -- American Mike Fossum and Sergei Volkov of Russia -- landed at 8:25 a.m., bringing the three back to Earth after they completed a five-and-a-half-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

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Astronauts return to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (R) is carried by compatriot astronaut Soichi Noguchi (L) and others from a Soyuz spacecraft on a plain near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 8:55 a.m. on Nov. 22, 2011, with the reentry capsule of the spacecraft shown in the background. The spacecraft carrying Furukawa and two other astronauts -- American Mike Fossum and Sergei Volkov of Russia -- landed at 8:25 a.m., bringing the three back to Earth after they completed a five-and-a-half-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

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Astronauts return to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (C) is carried from a Soyuz spacecraft on a plain near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 9 a.m. on Nov. 22, 2011, to receive medical checkups. The spacecraft carrying Furukawa and two other astronauts -- American Mike Fossum and Sergei Volkov of Russia -- landed at 8:25 a.m., bringing the three back to Earth after they completed a five-and-a-half-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

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Japan taps 3 new astronauts

TOKYO, Japan - Kimiya Yui attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 27, 2011, one day after the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency certified Yui 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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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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Japan taps 3 new astronauts

TOKYO, Japan - Norishige Kanai attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 27, 2011, one day after the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency certified Kanai 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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2 Japanese in space together for 1st time as shuttle docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki (front) entering the International Space Station from the U.S. space shuttle Discovery with other crew members. Yamazaki met with Shoichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space.

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken from NASA Television, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi wearing a Santa Claus hat (2nd from R) and other astronauts at the International Space Station communicate with people on Earth via video conferencing, after Russia's Soyuz space capsule carrying Noguchi and two other astronauts docked at the ISS on Dec. 23, 2009.

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (L) speaks to reporters at the Russian mission control center near Moscow on Dec. 23, 2009, after Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft carrying Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and two other astronauts docked at the International Space Station. Furukawa is scheduled to travel to the station by Soyuz in 2011.

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken from NASA Television, astronauts wearing Santa Claus hats, including Japan's Soichi Noguchi (R in back), at the International Space Station are projected on the screen at the Russian mission control center near Moscow on Dec. 23, 2009, after Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft carrying Noguchi and two other astronauts docked at the ISS.

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken from NASA Television, astronauts wearing Santa Claus hats, including Japan's Soichi Noguchi (R in back), at the International Space Station communicate with people on Earth via video conferencing, after Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft carrying Noguchi and two other astronauts docked at the ISS on Dec. 23, 2009.

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken from NASA Television, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi wearing a Santa Claus hat enters the International Space Station, after Russia's Soyuz space capsule carrying Noguchi and two other astronauts docked at the ISS on Dec. 23, 2009.

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken from NASA Television, Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft (C) carrying Japan's Soichi Noguchi and two other astronauts approaches the International Space Station to dock on Dec. 23, 2009. Noguchi, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and U.S. astronaut Timothy Creamer will stay at the ISS for five months.

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken from NASA Television, Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft (C) carrying Japan's Soichi Noguchi and two other astronauts approaches the International Space Station to dock on Dec. 23, 2009. Noguchi, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and U.S. astronaut Timothy Creamer will stay at the ISS for five months.

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Soyuz astronaut Noguchi lifts off from Kazakhstan

TOKYO, Japan - NASA television shows Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi inside Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft on Dec. 21, 2009. The spacecraft carrying Noguchi and two other astronauts successfully reached orbit shortly after a predawn liftoff from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan earlier in the day.

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3 astronauts including Japan's Noguchi lift off from Kazakhstan

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi waves as he leaves for Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, on Dec. 20, 2009, ahead of his departure for the International Space Station on Russia's Soyuz space capsule. The spacecraft carrying Noguchi and two other astronauts successfully reached orbit shortly after a predawn liftoff from the center on Dec. 21.

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Space shuttle Discovery crew to return to Earth

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (R) and other crew members of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery hug the astronauts on a long-stay mission in the International Space Station on June 10 before leaving the station for the Earth. The Discovery crew installed the main component of Japan's Kibo space laboratory during their two-week mission. (NASA TV-Kyodo)

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Lecture from space: How capillarity effect works

STORY: Lecture from space: How capillarity effect works DATELINE: Oct. 12, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:44 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. shot of Chinese astronaut Chen Dong preparing for the capillarity experiment 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): CHEN DONG, China's Shenzhou-14 astronaut 3. various of the capillarity effect experiment STORYLINE: How does the capillarity effect work in space? Take a glimpse of the experiment conducted by Chinese astronauts. This is part of the third live class from China's space station held Wednesday. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): CHEN DONG, China's Shenzhou-14 astronaut "In the thinnest tube, the liquid rises first and reaches the top quickly. The process will take more time in the other two tubes. Unlike the experiment on Earth, in the microgravity environment in space, the surface tension of the liquid is much more obvious. This will drive the liquid to continuously rise and eventually reach the top of the tubes. Now the liquid in the thickest tube has risen to the top, too.

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Space shuttle Discovery crew to return to Earth

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (R) and other crew members of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery hug the astronauts on a long-stay mission in the International Space Station on June 10 before leaving the station for the Earth. The Discovery crew installed the main component of Japan's Kibo space laboratory during their two-week mission. (NASA TV-Kyodo)(Kyodo)

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Astronauts on eve of rocket launch

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi speaks in a press conference at a hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on July 6, 2016, the day before the launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket to carry him and two other astronauts -- American Kathleen Rubins and Russian Anatoly Ivanishin -- to the International Space Station for their nearly four-month mission. The press conference was held through glass to protect the astronauts from infection. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Astronauts on eve of rocket launch

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi waves in a press conference at a hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on July 6, 2016, the day before the launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket to carry him and two other astronauts -- American Kathleen Rubins and Russian Anatoly Ivanishin -- to the International Space Station for their nearly four-month mission. The press conference was held through glass to protect the astronauts from infection. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Astronauts on eve of rocket launch

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi waves after a press conference at a hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on July 6, 2016, the day before the launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket to carry him and two other astronauts -- American Kathleen Rubins and Russian Anatoly Ivanishin -- to the International Space Station for their nearly four-month mission. The press conference was held through glass to protect the astronauts from infection. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Russian Soyuz rocket installed at launch facility in Kazakhstan

The Russian Soyuz rocket is installed on the launching pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 20, 2015. The Soyuz spacecraft was due to carry 45-year-old Japanese Kimiya Yui and two other astronauts to the International Space Station. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Russian Soyuz spacecraft en route to launching pad in Kazakhstan

The Russian spacecraft Soyuz is on its way to the launching pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 20, 2015. The spacecraft was to carry 45-year-old Japanese Kimiya Yui and two other astronauts to the International Space Station. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz lifts off with 3 astronauts for space station

Sukeji Yui (2nd from R), father of Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui, who left for the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, watches the docking operations on a screen as astronaut Koichi Wakata (2nd from L) explains what is happening on July 23, 2015. Yui is traveling with two other astronauts -- Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Russia and flight engineer Kjell Lindgren of the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz lifts off with 3 astronauts for space station

Junior high school students in the central Japan village of Kawakami, the home village of Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui, who left for the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, watch the takeoff of the Soyuz spacecraft carrying Yui and two other astronauts on July 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz lifts off to take 3 astronauts to space station

Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui responds to those who sent him off prior to his departure to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 23, 2015. He is traveling with two other astronauts -- Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Russia and flight engineer Kjell Lindgren of the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz lifts off to take 3 astronauts to space station

Photo shows the essay that Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui wrote when graduating elementary school. He said he would go to Mars in around 20 years' time. He left for the International Space Station on July 23, 2015, together with two other astronauts from Russia and the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz lifts off to take 3 astronauts to space station

Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui responds to those who sent him off prior to his departure to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 23, 2015. He is traveling with two other astronauts -- Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Russia and flight engineer Kjell Lindgren of the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz lifts off to take 3 astronauts to space station

Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui responds to those who sent him off prior to his departure to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 23, 2015. He is traveling with two other astronauts -- Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Russia and flight engineer Kjell Lindgren of the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz lifts off to take 3 astronauts to space station

Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui responds to those who sent him off prior to his departure to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 23, 2015. He is traveling with two other astronauts -- Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Russia and flight engineer Kjell Lindgren of the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz launch to ISS

Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai smiles before boarding a Russian Soyuz spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 17, 2017. The spacecraft was successfully launched to the International Space Station later in the day with two other astronauts from Russia and the United States on board. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soyuz launch to ISS

Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai clenches his fist before boarding a Russian Soyuz spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 17, 2017. The spacecraft was successfully launched to the International Space Station later in the day with two other astronauts from Russia and the United States on board. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Astronaut Onish speaks from ISS

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi holds a microphone inside the International Space Station during a press conference connecting the station and the Tokyo office of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on July 19, 2016. Onishi, who arrived at the ISS with two other astronauts from the United States and Russia on July 9, will stay aboard the station for about four months. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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. (Kyodo)

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Japan taps 3 new astronauts

TOKYO, Japan - Norishige Kanai attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 27, 2011, one day after the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency certified Kanai 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. (Kyodo)

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Japan taps 3 new astronauts

TOKYO, Japan - Kimiya Yui attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 27, 2011, one day after the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency certified Yui 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. (Kyodo)

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2 Japanese in space together for 1st time as shuttle docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki (front) entering the International Space Station from the U.S. space shuttle Discovery with other crew members. Yamazaki met with Shoichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space. (Kyodo)

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide is pictured during a press conference at Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow on Feb. 28, 2012, ahead of the launch later this year of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that will carry him and two other astronauts to the International Space Station. (Kyodo)

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide takes part in a training session at Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow on Feb. 28, 2012, ahead of the launch later this year of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that will carry him and two other astronauts to the International Space Station. (Kyodo)

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Astronauts return to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (R) is carried by compatriot astronaut Soichi Noguchi (L) and others from a Soyuz spacecraft on a plain near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 8:55 a.m. on Nov. 22, 2011, with the reentry capsule of the spacecraft shown in the background. The spacecraft carrying Furukawa and two other astronauts -- American Mike Fossum and Sergei Volkov of Russia -- landed at 8:25 a.m., bringing the three back to Earth after they completed a five-and-a-half-month mission aboard the International Space Station. (Kyodo)

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Astronauts return to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (C) is seen smiling at 8:56 a.m. on Nov. 22, 2011, while being carried from a Soyuz spacecraft on a plain near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. The spacecraft carrying Furukawa and two other astronauts -- American Mike Fossum and Sergei Volkov of Russia -- landed at 8:25 a.m., bringing the three back to Earth after they completed a five-and-a-half-month mission aboard the International Space Station. (Kyodo)

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Astronauts return to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (C) is carried from a Soyuz spacecraft on a plain near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 9 a.m. on Nov. 22, 2011, to receive medical checkups. The spacecraft carrying Furukawa and two other astronauts -- American Mike Fossum and Sergei Volkov of Russia -- landed at 8:25 a.m., bringing the three back to Earth after they completed a five-and-a-half-month mission aboard the International Space Station. (Kyodo)

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Astronauts return to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (C) is carried from the reentry capsule of a Soyuz spacecraft on a plain near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 8:55 a.m. on Nov. 22, 2011, after the spacecraft carrying Furukawa and two other astronauts -- American Mike Fossum and Sergei Volkov of Russia -- returned to Earth. The spacecraft landed at 8:25 a.m., bringing the three back to Earth after they completed a five-and-a-half-month mission aboard the International Space Station. (Kyodo)