Ovchinin and two other astronauts will depart the ISS aboard ... of the U.S.-led Artemis lunar exploration program. Japan's Koichi Wakata commanded the ISS in 2014 and Akihiko Hoshide in 2021.

Japanese astronaut Onishi Takuya has assumed command ... of the crew and accomplishing the mission. Onishi follows Wakata Koichi and Hoshide Akihiko in the role. They served as ISS commanders ...

Ovchinin and two other astronauts will depart the ISS aboard a Soyuz space ... moon as the centerpiece of the U.S.-led Artemis lunar exploration program. Japan's Koichi Wakata commanded the ISS in ...

NASA astronaut Michael Barratt (left) and JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata perform a check of the SPHERES robots. Researchers also used the Astrobees to show that models to predict the robots' behavior ...

Onishi is the third Japanese astronaut to command the ISS, following Koichi Wakata in 2014 and Akihiko Hoshide in 2021. Alexey Ovchinin, an astronaut from Russia, handed over command of the ISS to ...

Astronaut Onishi Takuya has taken charge as the third Japanese ... The two earlier Japanese commanders of the ISS were Wakata Koichi and Hoshide Akihiko. S/ Onishi Takuya, ISS Commander / I think this ...

India now plans to launch astronauts to space no sooner than 2027, shifting the goal post for the country's first human spaceflight yet again. Indian space minister Jitendra Singh announced the ...

Astronauts for China's Shenzhou-20 space mission (left to right) Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui, and Chen Dong wave during a departure ceremony before boarding a bus to take them to the Shenzhou-20 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is still going strong thanks to an amazing design, operations and science team — and a cadre of spacewalking astronauts. Hubble launched to Earth orbit 35 years ago ...