Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui, 55, arrived at the International Space Station on a U.S. Crew Dragon spacecraft Saturday to join Takuya Onishi, also from Japan, who has been aboard the space station since March.<\/p>\n
The 11th Crew Dragon spacecraft of SpaceX, carrying Yui and three others, was launched by a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday.<\/p>\n
The spacecraft was separated from the rocket 10 minutes after the launch and docked with the space station in the early hours of Saturday. The launch was postponed by a day due to bad weather.<\/p>\n
Onishi, 49, now in command of the space station, greeted Yui with a high five after the connecting hatch opened about 80 minutes after the docking. They hugged and celebrated their reunion.<\/p>\n
At a ceremony held afterward, Onishi welcomed the four astronauts, with Yui expressing his gratitude in English.<\/p>\n
This is Yui’s second space flight and his first since 2015. He is expected to stay in the space station for about six months.<\/p>\n
During the period, he will conduct various experiments in the Japanese module Kibo. He may see the first unit of Japan’s new cargo transporter HTV-X, a successor to Kounotori, arrive at the space station.<\/p>\n
Onishi is slated to return to Earth aboard the Crew-10 as early as Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui, 55, arrived at the International Space Station on a U.S. Crew Dragon spacecraft Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,18160,29504,66,306],"class_list":{"0":"post-42578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-iss","11":"tag-kimiya-yui","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}