Expedition 54-55 prime crew member Norishige Kanai listens to a reporters’ question Nov. 29 as part of the crew’s final qualification exam activities.
jsc2017e135207 (Nov. 29, 2017) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 54-55 prime crewmember Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Space Agency (JAXA) listens to a reporters’ question Nov. 29 as part of the crew’s final qualification exam activities. Kanai, Scott Tingle of NASA and Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch Dec. 17 on the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger