October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
...: Oleg Kononenko of Russia, Kjell Lingren of the USA and Kimiya Yui of Japan – all on their way to carry out Expeditions ...faster than the 9.5-hour plane journey from Moscow to Tokyo. Kimiya Yui is the fifth Japanese astronaut, and he is now conducting...
10 August 2015
ISS lettuce: first food grown in space eaten by Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui
... isn’t usually one of them. This is why International Space Station crewmembers Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren, and Kimiya Yui look so excited to eat red romaine lettuce in this video: For the first time ever, we are growing...
22 July 2015
Flawless Baikonur launch sees Soyuz head to ISS, reminds of importance of international cooperation
..., a trusty “work horse” of a spacecraft, is set to deliver NASA’s Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and Kimiya Yui of JAXA to a new home in orbit. Following a series of startling failures of unmanned missions to the ISS in the last...
11 December 2015
ISS Crew have undocked and are heading for Earth
... 45 Flight Engineers Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (Russian Federal Space Agency) and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will land in their Soyuz spacecraft, northeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan...
