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Astronaut Koichi Wakata Signs Commemorative Book

Astronaut Koichi Wakata Signs Commemorative Book
At the Gagarin Museum located at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (front row, left) signs a commemorative book Oct. 22, 2013 as his crewmates, Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin (front row, center) and NASA Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio (

JSC2013-E-090718 (22 Oct. 2013) — At the Gagarin Museum located at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (front row, left) signs a commemorative book Oct. 22, 2013 as his crewmates, Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin (front row, center) and NASA Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio (front row, right) look on. Joining them in the back row from left to right are backup crew members Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, Max Suraev and NASA’s Reid Wiseman. Wakata, Tyurin and Mastracchio are scheduled to launch Nov. 7, Kazakh time, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft for the start of a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA