JSC2000-00923 (27 January 2000) --- Astronaut Mamoru Mohri, representing Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA), gives a thumbs up signal prior to departure in a T-38 from Ellington Field, destination Florida. Five other astronauts, including one from the European Space Agency (ESA), are scheduled to liftoff into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour next week.