Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency waves good bye as one of the three remaining crew members on the orbital outpost records video of the crew departure.
ISS039-E-020769 (13 May 2013) — Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency waves good bye as one of the three remaining crew members on the orbital outpost records video of the crew departure. Already on the other side of the hatch are Expedition Flight Engineers Rick Mastracchio of NASA and Mikhail Tyurin of Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos).