‘Excited’: Crew-10 Astronaut Takuya Onishi On Replacing Sunita Williams And Butch Wilmore

<p data-pm-slice=”0 0 []”>Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Astronaut Takuya Onishi is “excited” to be officially part of Expedition 72. He has spent around 113 days in space as a flight engineer aboard the ISS as part of Expeditions 48 and 49. The Crew-10 team including Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov arrived at the International Space Station. The Crew-10 team will replace astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmor at the ISS.</p>
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<p dir=”ltr” lang=”en”>VIDEO | Crew-10 team – which includes NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov – arrives at International Space Station. The Crew-10 team will replace astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry&hellip; <a href=”https://t.co/sHr0FXmZIA”>pic.twitter.com/sHr0FXmZIA</a></p>
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<p>In 2016, Takuya manoeuvred the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) and became the first Japanese astronaut to capture the Cygnus spacecraft in space.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Who Is Takuya Onishi?</h2>
<p>Takuya was born in 1975 and was selected as an astronaut in 2009. Before joining JAXA, he was a pilot for All Nippon Airways, accumulating over 3,700 flight hours flying the Boeing 767.&nbsp; This was the second mission to space, following his previously successful mission with JAXA.</p>
<p>Onishi left for space on Friday along with three foreign crew members on his mission aboard a SpaceX rocket launched from Florida.&nbsp;</p>
<p>According to Arab News, quoting JIJI Press, Onishi, who is on his first flight to space since 2016, will stay in the ISS for about half a year. He will serve as ISS commander in the latter half of his mission, taking charge of the overall ISS operations and the safety of the crew members.</p>
<p>He will be the third Japanese ISS commander after Koichi Wakata and Akihiko Hoshide.&nbsp;</p>
<p>During his stay, he will conduct several experiments mainly in Japan&rsquo;s experiment module Kibo. He will also examine how the microgravity environment affects the efficacy of a cancer therapeutic drug in fruit flies with generic mutations for pancreatic cancer.</p>