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December 2, 2010 (JST)
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to announce that Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa begins Twitter on December 2 (Thu.,) 2010. In December 2008, astronaut Furukawa was appointed as a flight engineer for the Expedition 28/29 crew (long-term stay mission) to the International Space Station (ISS), thus he is currently under training both in Japan and overseas. He is slated to live in the ISS for six months from around the end of May 2011.
JAXA Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa
Astronaut Furukawa will tweet about his training on the ground, then, during his expedition at the ISS, he will report on his daily scientific experiments from a scientist’s point of view as well as daily life and changes in his body in space based on his experiences as a medical doctor. This month, as he starts tweeting, he is under training in Russia as a backup crew for the ISS Expedition 26/27; therefore, we can expect to hear his real voice as he prepares for the expedition crew. Through Twitter, JAXA would like to dispatch more information about the activities of Astronaut Furukawa and events and life on the Japanese Experiment Module "Kibo" of the ISS.
Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa on Twitter
User name: Astro_Satoshi
URL: http://twitter.com/Astro_Satoshi
Brief personal history of Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa
For more informations about Astronaut Furukawa Satoshi, visit: http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/
For more informations about JAXA, visit: http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html
Images, Text, Credit: JAXA.
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