Today's big morning news was the launch of the Soyuz. A Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi (野口聡一) is one of the crew members of the mission to the International Space Station (ISS) this time. He will stay at ISS for 5 months. This is the second time for Japanese to launch by the Soyuz after 19 years. He greeted in Russian that he was honored to launch from the same launching site as the Yuri Gagarin did.
He is from Chigasaki, Kanagawa (神奈川県茅ヶ崎市) prefecture. At the Civic Culture Center in Chigasaki there gathered 400 people to watch the live of the launch.
According to the newspaper he and the other crew use Twitter. It is very interesting to know that being far apart we can still contact. What a technology!
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