JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata wears a SpaceX launch and entry suit while becoming familiar with the Crew Dragon spacecraft that will take Wakata and his crewmates to the International Space Station as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station.
A SpaceX launch and entry suit bears a Japanese flag, and the name of JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata – a crewmember of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station.
JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata wears a SpaceX launch and entry suit while becoming familiar with the Crew Dragon spacecraft that will take Wakata and his crewmates to the International Space Station as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station.
JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata poses for a portrait before his launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel
ISS037-E-028162 (9 Nov. 2013) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, works with hardware in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS038-E-030425 (13 Jan. 2014) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, poses for a photo at a window in the Cupola of the International Space Station while the Canadarm2 robotic arm's Latching End Effector (LEE) appears to be looking through the window from outside the station.
ISS039-E-003124 (14 March 2014) --- Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) clowns with Robonaut 2, a humanoid robot, in the U.S. lab Destiny while preparing for a public TV event.
ISS038-E-041425 (2 Feb. 2014) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, gets a workout on the advanced Resistive Exercise Device (aRED) in the Tranquility node of the International Space Station.
ISS038-E-041406 (2 Feb. 2014) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, gets a workout on the advanced Resistive Exercise Device (aRED) in the Tranquility node of the International Space Station.
ISS038-E-041409 (2 Feb. 2014) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, gets a workout on the advanced Resistive Exercise Device (aRED) in the Tranquility node of the International Space Station.
ISS038-E-041429 (4 Feb. 2014) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, floats into the Experiment Logistics Modules-Pressurized Section (ELM-PS) of the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory during an in-flight event with his alma mater, Kyushu University in Japan and officials from the Fukuoka Prefecture.
ISS038-E-019279 (21 Dec. 2013) --- Inside the U.S. lab Destiny, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata is pictured at the robotic workstation for controlling the International Space Station's remote manipulator system or Canadarm2. The astronaut, who represents the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, was supporting the Dec. 21 spacewalk of NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins.
ISS038-E-001285 (14 Nov. 2013) --- In the International Space Station?s Columbus laboratory, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, participates in a session with the European Space Agency-sponsored Reversible Figures experiment, which tracks how the adaptation of an astronaut?s neurovestibular system to weightlessness may alter 3-D visual perception.
ISS038-E-009211 (26 Nov. 2013) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, performs a VO2max session for the SPRINT investigation while using the Cycle Ergometer with Vibration Isolation System (CEVIS) in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. VO2max uses the Portable Pulmonary Function System (PPFS), CEVIS, Pulmonary Function System (PFS) gas cylinders and mixing bag system, plus multiple other pieces of hardware to measure oxygen uptake and cardiac output.
ISS038-E-019291 (21 Dec. 2013) --- Inside the U.S. lab Destiny, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata is pictured at the robotic workstation for controlling the International Space Station's remote manipulator system or Canadarm2. The astronaut, who represents the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, was supporting the Dec. 21 spacewalk of NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins.
ISS038-E-035473 (24 Jan. 2014) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, is pictured wearing the Penguin-3 antigravity pressure/stress suit in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS038-E-035470 (24 Jan. 2014) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, is pictured wearing the Penguin-3 antigravity pressure/stress suit in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS038-E-035476 (24 Jan. 2014) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, is pictured wearing the Penguin-3 antigravity pressure/stress suit in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
Exterior view of the Cupola Module with Expedition 39 commander and Japan Aerospace Exploration agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata inside, looking out through one of the windows. This image was released by Wakata on Twitter.
ISS020-E-005881 (1 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, conducts the current periodic humidity check on the Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) in the Saibo Rack in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station. Wakata opened the facility’s door for wiping up any condensation inside the micro-G & 1G section, if present, and also secured floating fan mesh with Kapton tape.
From left to right: JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata, and NASA Astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada receive training on their crew capsule at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
ISS038-E-010407 (30 Nov. 2013) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, is pictured in a hatch in the Russian segment of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-015801 (28 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, floats freely in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-019404 (23 May 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, looks through a window in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-007150 (7 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, sets up camera equipment at a window in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-019407 (23 May 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, looks through a window in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-007312 (3 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, poses for a photo while floating freely in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-008088 (10 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, is pictured in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-007313 (3 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, poses for a photo while floating freely in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
NASA Astronaut Josh Cassada, JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina train for their upcoming SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station inside a mockup facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Credit: NASA/James Blair
NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts train on May 13, 2022 for their upcoming International Space Station mission in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. From left to right: JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata, and NASA Astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann.
NASA Astronauts Josh Cassada, Nicole Mann, and JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata pose for a photograph at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, after a training for their upcoming Crew-5 mission.
ISS039-E-010332 (9 April 2014) --- Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency works with space suits, called extravehicular mobility units, in the Quest airlock of the International Space Station on April 9, 2014.
ISS019-E-014672 (7 May 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, is photographed in a sleeping bag attached to the racks in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-011050 (27 April 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, pulls stowage bags from a rack in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-015807 (28 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, works at the Japanese Remote Manipulator System (JEM-RMS) work station in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-011129 (19 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, is pictured near a can of food floating freely in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
View of Koichi Wakata,Expedition 38 Flight Engineer (FE),in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Pressurized Module (JPM). JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD) installed on the Multi-Purpose Experiment Platform (MPEP),is visible. Photo was taken during Expedition 38. Image was released by astronaut on Twitter.
ISS020-E-007607 (8 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, exercises on the Cycle Ergometer with Vibration Isolation System (CEVIS) in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-017342 (16 May 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, works with the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) in the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-017344 (16 May 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, works with the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) in the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS039-E-008095 (1 April 2014) --- Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata, representing the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), seems very elated that three new members of the crew have brought up food and supplies, especially fresh fruit, as depicted in this photo -- among the first sets of imagery documented with all six Expedition 39 crew members onboard the International Space Station. Wakata is in the orbiting outpost's Cupola module.
ISS020-E-021848 (18 July 2009) --- Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata (right), Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, and astronaut Doug Hurley, STS-127 pilot, share intravehicular support to the first two spacewalkers who will be performing work on the International Space Station over the next week. When the Endeavour crew returns to Earth, Wakata will accompany it, having completed his current flight engineer duty during the STS-127 visit.
S119-E-006764 (20 March 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata is pictured on Discovery's middeck with the General Laboratory Active Cryogenic ISS Experiment Refrigerator (GLACIER). The astronauts changed out the International Space Station's glacier with a new one on March 20 to return urine, saliva, and blood samples from the Expedition 18 crew to Earth with Discovery's STS-119 astronauts. Wakata will be serving with both the current (Expedition 18) and the following (Expedition 19) crews aboard the station.
ISS039-E-020699 (13 May 2014) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 39 commander, places his crew patch on a wall in the Quest airlock of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. A short time later, Wakata joined Expedition 39 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA as they departed the orbital outpost in a Soyuz vehicle. Wakata had spent a great deal of time in Quest as he assisted spacewalks from the shirt-sleeve environment of the orbital outpost on both Expedition 38 and 39.
ISS038-E-015223 (11 Dec. 2013) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, works with a video camera in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-021237 (26 May 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, uses an amateur radio in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-016151 (30 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, enters data in a computer in the Harmony node of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-010235 (25 April 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, floats in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-013699 (3 May 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, looks through a window in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-006157 (3 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, uses amateur radio gear in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-011096 (16 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, uses a microphone near a window in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS038-E-015224 (11 Dec. 2013) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, floats freely while holding a video camera in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS038-E-015225 (11 Dec. 2013) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, floats freely while holding a video camera in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS038-E-011800 (4 Dec. 2013) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, works the controls at the robotic workstation in the Cupola of the International Space Station.
View of Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer (FE), exercising on the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (aRED), in the Node 3. Photo was taken during Expedition 38. Image was released by astronaut on Twitter.
ISS019-E-010232 (25 April 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, floats in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-010025 (15 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, removes a dewar tray from the Minus Eighty Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) in order to insert biological samples into the trays in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station. Samples were taken as part of the Nutritional Status Assessment (Nutrition) with Repository experiment, a study done by NASA to date of human physiologic changes during long-duration spaceflight. Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, flight engineer, assisted Wakata.
ISS020-E-010028 (15 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, returns a dewar tray to the Minus Eighty Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) after inserting biological samples into the trays in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station. Samples were taken as part of the Nutritional Status Assessment (Nutrition) with Repository experiment, a study done by NASA to date of human physiologic changes during long-duration spaceflight. Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, flight engineer, assisted Wakata.
ISS020-E-022321 (18 July 2009) --- On the second day of joint activities between the STS-127 astronauts and ISS Expedition 20 crew members, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata are pictured onboard the orbital outpost. They are among 11 astronauts and cosmonauts who remained inside the shuttle and station to provide support while two crew members performed the first spacewalk to continue work on the station. Wakata has been serving as a flight engineer onboard ISS, but converts to an STS-127 missison specialist until returning home aboard Endeavour later this month.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata is seen during a traditional tree planting ceremony at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Saturday, June 2, 2018 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Wakata was in Karaganda to help support the Expedition 55 crew Soyuz landing from the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 39 commander Koichi Wakata and flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin, wearing Sokol pressure suits, are photographed in the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft during a Sokol leak check. Wakata is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut; Tyurin is a Roscosmos cosmonaut. Image was released by the commander on Twitter.
ISS019-E-009849 (23 April 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, performs in-flight maintenance on the Treadmill Vibration Isolation System (TVIS) in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-017919 (19 May 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, works controls at the station?s Canadarm2 robotic arm in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS039-E-017152 (27 April 2014) --- Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) peers out of one of the windows of the Cupola on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. A crewmate inside Pirs docking module recorded the image.
ISS019-E-009487 (22 April 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, poses for a photo with the Treadmill Vibration Isolation System (TVIS) during in-flight maintenance operations in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-009845 (23 April 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, performs in-flight maintenance on the Treadmill Vibration Isolation System (TVIS) in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-009824 (23 April 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, performs in-flight maintenance on the Treadmill Vibration Isolation System (TVIS) in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS039-E-014709 (22 April 2014) --- Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) packs experimental gear, including the Marangoni Inside (MI) Core, in the Kibo laboratory on the International Space Station. This hardware will be returning to Earth soon.
ISS039-E-017171 (27 April 2014) --- Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) peers out of one of the windows of the Cupola on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. A crewmate inside Pirs docking module recorded the image.
ISS020-E-008964 (14 June 2009) --- NASA astronaut Michael Barratt (left) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, both Expedition 20 flight engineers, work in the Harmony node of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-007552 (17 April 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, works the controls at the Canadarm2 robotic work station in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-019380 (22 May 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, squeezes a bubble out of his beverage container in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
S119-E-006377 (17 March 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, STS-119 mission specialist, works on the middeck of Space Shuttle Discovery during flight day three activities. Astronaut Joseph Acaba (partially out of frame), mission specialist, is at right.
ISS038-E-002215 (14 Nov. 2013) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, equipped with a bungee harness, exercises on the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT) in the Tranquility node of the International Space Station.
ISS038-E-002210 (14 Nov. 2013) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer, equipped with a bungee harness, exercises on the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT) in the Tranquility node of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-009823 (23 April 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, performs in-flight maintenance on the Treadmill Vibration Isolation System (TVIS) in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-017359 (17 May 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, exercises using the advanced Resistive Exercise Device (aRED) in the Unity node of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-023585 (23 July 2009) --- Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata (left) and astronaut Mark Polansky, STS-127 mission specialist and commander, respectively, work in the Japanese Experiment Module or Kibo during flight day 9, as joint shuttle-station activities continue on the orbital outpost.
ISS019-E-008758 (21 April 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, performs in-flight maintenance on the Treadmill Vibration Isolation System (TVIS) in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-009486 (22 April 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, poses for a photo with the Treadmill Vibration Isolation System (TVIS) during in-flight maintenance operations in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS039-E-010403 (8 April 2014) --- Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) works with computers in the Harmony node of the International Space Station to prepare for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) eye examinations for the Optical Health experiment.
ISS020-E-008958 (14 June 2009) --- NASA astronaut Michael Barratt (left) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, both Expedition 20 flight engineers, work in the Harmony node of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-009806 (20 April 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, squeezes honey out of a tube near the galley in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-019099 (13 July 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, works with the Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions (InSPACE) experiment in the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) in the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-020303 (14 July 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, works with the Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions (InSPACE) experiment in the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) in the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-005093 (30 May 2009) --- Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk (foreground) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, both Expedition 20 flight engineers, work in the Unity node of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-010016 (15 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, works with the General Laboratory Active Cryogenic ISS Experiment Refrigerator (GLACIER) in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-017920 (19 May 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, works controls at the station?s Canadarm2 robotic arm in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-023581 (23 July 2009) --- Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata (right) and astronaut Mark Polansky, STS-127 mission specialist and commander, respectively, work in the Japanese Experiment Module or Kibo during flight day 9, as joint shuttle-station activities continue on the orbital outpost.
ISS020-E-010017 (15 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, works with the General Laboratory Active Cryogenic ISS Experiment Refrigerator (GLACIER) in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-005091 (30 May 2009) --- Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk (foreground) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, both Expedition 20 flight engineers, work in the Unity node of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-007123 (12 April 2009) --- Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka (foreground), Expedition 19/20 commander; and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, work in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-009853 (23 April 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, performs in-flight maintenance on the Treadmill Vibration Isolation System (TVIS) in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-008921 (19 April 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, uses a still camera at a window in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-021330 (28 May 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, poses for a photo with an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-008754 (21 April 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, performs in-flight maintenance on the Treadmill Vibration Isolation System (TVIS) in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-006212 (1 June 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata (left) and NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, both Expedition 20 flight engineers, work in the Harmony node of the International Space Station.
ISS020-E-005790 (30 May 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, exercises on the Cycle Ergometer with Vibration Isolation System (CEVIS) in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS019-E-008919 (19 April 2009) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, uses a still camera at a window in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.