{"id":142850,"date":"2021-10-14T17:48:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T08:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=142850&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-10-14T17:48:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T08:48:42","slug":"kyushu-university-alumni-koichi-wakata-back-to-space-station","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kyushu-university-alumni-koichi-wakata-back-to-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyushu University Alumni, Koichi Wakata Back To Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Astronaut and Kyushu University alumni, Koichi Wakata, will join the Crew Dragon spaceship\u2019s space journey in the fall of 2022. The 58-year-old astronaut has the domestic record for most cumulative time working in space, at 347 days. His next space travel would be another long-term stay on the International Space Station. Crew Dragon is the first private crewed spacecraft, and two Japanese astronauts have been onboard for their 2020 and 2021 flights.<\/span><b> Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/news\/html\/20211012\/k10013303161000.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-142851\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wakata-koichi.jpg?resize=1024%2C712&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wakata-koichi.jpg?resize=1024%2C712&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wakata-koichi.jpg?resize=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wakata-koichi.jpg?resize=768%2C534&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wakata-koichi.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Astro_Wakata\/status\/1432194210728321035\/photo\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Koichi Wakata official Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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