{"id":230882,"date":"2026-01-10T12:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/230882\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:43:15","slug":"jaxa-astronaut-makoto-suwa-to-join-iss-crew-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/230882\/","title":{"rendered":"JAXA astronaut Makoto Suwa to join ISS crew in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronaut and former World Bank official Makoto Suwa has been assigned to a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station around 2027, Japan\u2019s space agency announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel deeply honored and truly happy to have been given the opportunity to make even a small contribution as part of this outstanding program,\u201d Suwa told reporters Friday at a news conference organized by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe a relay baton has been passed steadily from one (Japanese) astronaut to the next,\u201d he added. \u201cI want to receive that baton firmly and hand it on properly when the time comes for the next mission.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Astronaut and former World Bank official Makoto Suwa has been assigned to a long-duration stay aboard the International&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,3441,8010,125553,141,145],"class_list":["post-230882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-iss","tag-jaxa","tag-makoto-suwa","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}