JSC2008-E-039248 (12 May 2008) --- Attired in a training version of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 18 flight engineer, awaits the start of a training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Photographer Markowitz