Japanese Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa in NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Training

Japanese Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa in NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Training

Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) wearing his SpaceX Crew Dragon spacesuit 

Furukawa in SpaceX Crew-7 Dragon training

Furukawa in SpaceX Crew-7 Dragon training to the right of NASA astronaut & Crew-7 commander Jasmin Moghbeli

Furukawa in SpaceX Crew-7 Dragon training (foreground) with Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia in the background

Furukawa in routine operations training at NASA's Space Vehicle Mockup Facility

These are portraits and views of astronaut Satoshi Furukawa from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) during training with SpaceX and NASA. Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa will serve as a mission specialist for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission—the agency’s seventh rotational mission to the International Space Station. 

Astronaut Furukawa will join NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia. Furukawa spent 165 days aboard the orbiting laboratory in 2011 as a flight engineer with Expeditions 28 and 29. As part of his duties, he helped support the final space shuttle mission, STS-135.

Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa JAXA Biography:

https://humans-in-space.jaxa.jp/en/astronaut/furukawa-satoshi/

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than mid-August 2023 for the launch of Crew-7, aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four astronauts will join an expedition crew aboard the International Space Station.

Image Credits: SpaceX/NASA/Riley McClenaghan

Image Capture Dates: March 3, 2023-June 2, 2023

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