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iss068e026335 (Dec. 3, 2022) --- Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency...

iss068e026335 (Dec. 3, 2022) --- Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are pictured at the robotics workstation that controls the Canadarm2 robotic arm from inside the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory module. The duo assisted NASA spacewalkers Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio (out of frame) who were on the outside of the orbiting lab installing a roll-out solar array on the Starboard-4 truss segment.

iss068e027924 (Dec. 8, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) works on...

iss068e027924 (Dec. 8, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) works on water recovery system components inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module.

iss068e019667 (Oct. 27, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) works on...

iss068e019667 (Oct. 27, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) works on spacesuits, also known as Extra-vehicular Mobility Units (EMUs), located in the Quest airlock where spacewalks are staged in the U.S. segment of the International Space Station.

iss068e035487 (Dec. 29, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration (JAXA) works on cooling...

iss068e035487 (Dec. 29, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration (JAXA) works on cooling loops that are part of the Extravehicular Mobility Units, or spacesuits, that astronauts wear when working in the vacuum of space outside the International Space Station.

iss068e038960 (Jan. 7, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration (JAXA) poses in front...

iss068e038960 (Jan. 7, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration (JAXA) poses in front of the VEGGIE space botany research facility after tending to tomato plants growing aboard the International Space Station.

iss068e042026 (Jan. 26, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) works on...

iss068e042026 (Jan. 26, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) works on orbital plumbing tasks inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module.

iss068e022689 (Nov. 17, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) works on...

iss068e022689 (Nov. 17, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) works on life support maintenance tasks inside the International Space Station's Columbus laboratory module.

iss068e022682 (Nov. 16, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) works on...

iss068e022682 (Nov. 16, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) works on a small satellite orbital deployer before placing it inside the Kibo laboratory module's airlock where it would later be placed into the vacuum of space.

iss068e020601 (Nov. 3, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace...

iss068e020601 (Nov. 3, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) pose together with an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), also known as a spacesuit, inside the Unity module just outside the Quest airlock where spacewalks are staged with astronauts wearing the EMUs.

iss068e020596 (Nov. 3, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Nicole...

iss068e020596 (Nov. 3, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Nicole Mann of NASA pose together while working on an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), also known as a spacesuit, inside the Unity module just outside the Quest airlock where spacewalks are staged with astronauts wearing the EMUs.

iss068e039507 (Jan. 10, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Nicole...

iss068e039507 (Jan. 10, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Nicole Mann of NASA are pictured inside the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory module.

iss068e029529 (Dec. 13, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineers (from left) Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)...

iss068e029529 (Dec. 13, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineers (from left) Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Frank Rubio of NASA swap research hardware on the NanoRacks External Platform inside the Kibo laboratory module.

iss068e021368 (Nov. 9, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann, both NASA astronauts, are pictured inside...

iss068e021368 (Nov. 9, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann, both NASA astronauts, are pictured inside the cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world." Outside the cupola, and 264 miles above southwestern Australia, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter can be seen approaching the orbiting lab carrying about 8,200 pounds of new science experiments, food, fuel, and supplies to replenish the seven-member crew. Credit: Josh Cassada/NASA

iss068e024215 (Nov. 23, 2022) --- NASA astronauts (from top) Frank Rubio and Josh Cassada configure spacewalking tools and components on...

iss068e024215 (Nov. 23, 2022) --- NASA astronauts (from top) Frank Rubio and Josh Cassada configure spacewalking tools and components on a pair of Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs), or spacesuits, inside the International Space Station's Quest airlock.

iss068e005834 (Sept. 30, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineers (from left) Bob Hines, Frank Rubio, and Jessica Watkins, all three...

iss068e005834 (Sept. 30, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineers (from left) Bob Hines, Frank Rubio, and Jessica Watkins, all three NASA astronauts, pose for a portrait together inside the the International Space Station's Unity module.

iss068e054809 (Feb. 2, 2023) --- (At far left and right) Astronauts Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and...

iss068e054809 (Feb. 2, 2023) --- (At far left and right) Astronauts Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and Nicole Mann of NASA are suited up in their Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs), or spacesuits, following a spacewalk on Feb. 2, 2023, to install hardware on the International Space Station's Port-6 truss structure. Assisting the duo out of their EMUs are NASA Flight Engineers (center left and right) Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio.

iss068e013297 (Oct. 8, 2022) --- ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Expedition 68 Commander Samantha Cristoforetti works on a laptop...

iss068e013297 (Oct. 8, 2022) --- ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Expedition 68 Commander Samantha Cristoforetti works on a laptop computer inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module.

iss068e012464 (Oct. 5, 2022) --- ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Expedition 68 Commander Samantha Cristoforetti signs her name around...

iss068e012464 (Oct. 5, 2022) --- ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Expedition 68 Commander Samantha Cristoforetti signs her name around the SpaceX CRS-25 mission insignia sticker affixed to the Harmony module's vestibule. Cristoforetti was aboard the International Space Station when the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship docked to Harmony's forward port on July 16, 2022, for a five-week cargo mission.

iss068e017570 (Oct. 19, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) works in...

iss068e017570 (Oct. 19, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) works in the U.S. Quest airlock swapping electronics components and checking cable connections inside an avionics rack.

iss068e058259 (Feb. 26, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) shows off his...

iss068e058259 (Feb. 26, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) shows off his SpaceX spacesuit he wore aboard the Crew Dragon Endurance spaceship when he launched to the International Space Station on Oct. 5 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

iss068e039389 (Jan. 9, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration (JAXA) retrieves research samples...

iss068e039389 (Jan. 9, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration (JAXA) retrieves research samples from science freezers inside the Kibo laboratory module in preparation for stowage inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft before its undocking from the International Space Station and return to Earth.

iss068e021831 (Nov. 14, 2022) --- Astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)...

iss068e021831 (Nov. 14, 2022) --- Astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) removes experiment containers from inside the Columbus laboratory module's Kubik research facility, a temperature-controlled incubator. The experiment containers are part of the Antioxidation Protection experiment that explores neuronal cells involved in the cognitive and motor functions of humans both in space and on Earth. Credit: Nicole Mann/NASA

iss068e033710 (Dec. 28, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) poses with...

iss068e033710 (Dec. 28, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) poses with an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), also known as a spacesuit, aboard the International Space Station.

iss068e027642 (Dec. 7, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) poses for...

iss068e027642 (Dec. 7, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) poses for a portrait in front of the Columbus laboratory module's BioLab, a research facility used to perform space biology experiments on microorganisms, cells, tissue cultures, small plants, and small invertebrates.

iss068e021041 (Nov. 7, 2022) --- Astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)...

iss068e021041 (Nov. 7, 2022) --- Astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is pictured inside the International Space Station's Quest airlock where spacewalks in NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs), or spacesuits, are staged. Credit: Koichi Wakata/JAXA

iss068e043110 (Jan. 28, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) displays incubated...

iss068e043110 (Jan. 28, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) displays incubated nutrient packets removed from the Space Automated Bioproducts Laboratory (SABL). The packets contain generically activated microbes, like yeast, that are hydrated with sterilized water, incubated inside the SABL, then frozen and returned to Earth for analysis. The BioNutrients experiment is demonstrating a technology that enables on-demand production of human nutrients during long-duration space missions.

iss068e021206 (Nov. 9, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) works inside...

iss068e021206 (Nov. 9, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) works inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module connecting cables and reconfiguring sensors on the Cell Biology Experiment Facility, a research incubator with an artificial gravity generator.

iss068e040441 (Jan. 13, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) wears virtual...

iss068e040441 (Jan. 13, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) wears virtual reality goggles and practices for the unlikely emergency scenario of becoming untethered from the International Space Station during a spacewalk. The virtual training familiarizes astronauts with operating the jet pack attached to their Extravehicular Mobility Units, or spacesuits, to safely return to the orbiting lab in the event they become detached during a spacewalk. The jet pack is also known by its longer name Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue, or SAFER.

iss068e017255 (Oct. 14, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) wears a...

iss068e017255 (Oct. 14, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) wears a virtual reality headset for the GRASP study exploring how weightlessness affects the central nervous system, or more specifically an astronaut’s reach-to-grasp function.

iss068e051275 (Feb. 11, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) tends to...

iss068e051275 (Feb. 11, 2023) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) tends to tomato plants growing inside the Columbus laboratory module's Veggie space botany facility.

iss068e041204 (Jan. 20, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) points the...

iss068e041204 (Jan. 20, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) points the camera toward himself and takes a "space-selfie" during a seven-hour and 21-minute spacewalk to install a modification kit on the International Space Station's starboard truss structure preparing the orbital lab for its next roll-out solar array.

iss068e017277 (Oct. 17, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) switches an...

iss068e017277 (Oct. 17, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) switches an Argon gas supply line to maintain gas pressure aboard the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module.

iss068e029939 (Dec. 15, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) performs research...

iss068e029939 (Dec. 15, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) performs research operations inside the Destiny laboratory module's Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG). Wakata was swapping samples inside the MSG for a space physics experiment demonstrating a passive cooling system for electronic devices in microgravity.

jsc2019e052744 - At the airport in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, backup crewmembers Sultan Al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates (left) who is...

At the airport in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, backup crewmembers Sultan Al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates (left) who is a spaceflight participant and Expedition 61 backups Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos (center) and Tom Marshburn of NASA (right) report to Russian space officials Sept. 10 upon their arrival at their launch site. They are the backups to the prime crew, spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates and Expedition 61 crewmembers Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and Jessica Meir of NASA, who will launch on Sept. 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft for a mission on the International Space Station.

jsc2019e051819 - At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the backups to the next crew to launch...

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the backups to the next crew to launch to the International Space Station report for duty Aug. 29 during the first day of crew qualification exams. From left to right are backup spaceflight participant Sultan Al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates, Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos and Tom Marshburn of NASA. They are the backups to the prime crew, spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates and Expedition 61 crewmembers Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and Jessica Meir of NASA, who will launch Sept. 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft.

jsc2019e052749 - At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 61 crewmember Jessica Meir of NASA (right)...

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 61 crewmember Jessica Meir of NASA (right) and spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates (left) walk to a bus Sept. 10 that will take them to a nearby airfield for a flight to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Meir, Almansoori and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos will launch on Sept. 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft for a mission on the International Space Station.

iss061e054283 (Nov. 22, 2019) --- Flight Engineers Christina Koch and Oleg Skripochka are pictured assisting spacewalkers Andrew Morgan (left) and...

Flight Engineers Christina Koch and Oleg Skripochka are pictured assisting spacewalkers Andrew Morgan (left) and Luca Parmitano (right) in the U.S. Quest airlock before they would begin the second spacewalk to repair the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer's thermal control system.

iss061e093907 (Dec. 23, 2019) --- Expedition 61 Commander Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency) inspects a new treadmill that...

Expedition 61 Commander Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency) inspects a new treadmill that was launched aboard the Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply ship.

jsc2019e051818 - At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 61 backup crewmember Tom Marshburn of NASA...

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 61 backup crewmember Tom Marshburn of NASA signs in Aug. 29 for the first day of crew qualification exams. Looking on are the other backups, spaceflight participant Sultan Al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates and Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos. They are the backups to the prime crew, spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates and Expedition 61 crewmembers Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and Jessica Meir of NASA, who will launch Sept. 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft for a mission on the International Space Station.

jsc2019e051816 - At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 61 backup crewmember Tom Marshburn of NASA...

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 61 backup crewmember Tom Marshburn of NASA listens to a reporter’s question Aug. 29 during the crew’s qualification exams. Marshburn is one of the backups to the prime crew, spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates and Expedition 61 crewmembers Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and Jessica Meir of NASA, who will launch Sept. 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft for a mission on the International Space Station.