Koichi Wakata Ready To Be The First Japanese Commander For Iss Expedition

Japan Aerospace Traveling around Say-so (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, who has been staying at the Universal Put Accommodation as a flight finagle in the role of November 7, 2013, hand down generate the post of Chief for ISS Search for 39 on Stagger 9, 2014. He hand down put off the first Japanese Chief for an ISS Search for appointment. A "Modernize of Regulation Show off" to be alleged at 5:50 p.m. on Stagger 9 at the ISS hand down microchip his overture. NASA TV hand down relay the spectacle.

The toll of the Chief hand down be transferred from Chief Oleg Kotov (Russia) of Search for 38. All six crowd members of Search for 38 and 39 hand down attend the spectacle.

Meanwhile, Wakata today started his day at the ISS with a shrewd self-test for the Response see. The suffering seeks to exact exhaustion levels to good deed crowd members maximize their performance. Next, he opened up the Glare Integrated Pause for carry-over satisfying the research fitting.

In January, 1996, Wakata flew as the first Japanese Plan Board on STS-72 and performed altered household tasks amid robotics operations for the recovery of the Japanese Put Classified ad Team satellite (launched by a Japanese H-II rise in Stagger 1995), for the operation and recovery of the NASA OAST Classified ad satellite, and for the string of the spacewalks.

In October 2000, he became the first Japanese astronaut to work on the ISS gathering on STS-92, concerning which he was predisposed for the robotics operations to solution the Z-1 Roof joist and Rushed Mating Adapter-3 to the ISS as well as to string the spacewalks.

In July 2006, he served as the Chief of the 10th NASA Radical Quality Plan Operations (NEEMO) appointment, an sunken side track at the Government Oceanic ">

From Stagger to July, 2009, Wakata flew as the first occupant ISS crowd belong to from Japan and served as a Breakout Planner and the JAXA Science Bureaucrat on the crews of Expeditions 18, 19 and 20 as well as a Plan Board on STS-119 and STS-127 (2J/A). His duties concerning the four-and-half month flight included the moving parts of the S6 Roof joist, the keep up gathering of Kibo, a well-chosen of suffering piece in science, business, art, and tuition, as well as ISS systems operations and carry-over. In addendum, Wakata operated all of the current human space robotics systems - Canadarm on the Shuttle, Canadarm2, Dextre, and Kibo's robotic arm on the ISS. He became the first Japanese astronaut to fly aboard Soyuz TMA spacecraft on control. A weathered of three space flights, Wakata has logged a add up of 159 existence, 10 hours, 46 proceedings and 5 seconds in space.

In February 2011, he was assigned as a Breakout Planner of ISS Search for 38 and the Chief of Search for 39.