Japanese astronaut safely returns to earth

Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide returned safely to Earth on November 19 after completing a four-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and set a new record for space walking by an astronaut. Japanese family members perform.

Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Hoshide and colleagues Yury Malenchenko (Russia) and Sunita Williams (USA) landed safely on parachute in a plains in Kazakhstan at 7:56 am (local time). after) leaving the ISS station about three hours earlier and entering the atmosphere at an altitude of about 100km on the Black Sea.

Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide returns to Earth safely

Mr. Hoshide spoke in Japanese on Twitter before Soyuz left ISS: 'Thank you all for supporting me. I am very happy to be born on this beautiful planet. "

Hoshide, 43, made three trips outside of ISS in his 120-day mission. The out-of-home trip of the Japanese astronaut was to repair the station with a total of 21 hours and 23 minutes, surpassing the record of the time that astronaut Soichi Noguchi had worked outside the station for 20 hours. 5 minutes.

Working four months on the universe was the second mission Hoshide made after his first trip in 2008. In this mission, he conducted experiments inside Japan's Kibo experimental module - which he carried out assembly in his first mission - including the release of small satellites into earth orbit, including a Vietnamese satellite, and a fish culture experiment in space.

Regarding future missions on ISS, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, 49, will serve as the first Japanese head station on his trip to the ISS from the end of 2013 while Kimiya Yui, the astronaut 42 years old, a former pilot pilot of the Air Defense Force, will go to the international space station in 2015. Both of these trips are made on the Soyuz spacecraft.