星出さん、来春ＩＳＳへ　米宇宙船搭乗決まる―ＪＡＸＡ

　宇宙航空研究開発機構（ＪＡＸＡ）は２８日、星出彰彦さん（５１）が、来年春に打ち上げられる米新型宇宙船「クルードラゴン」運用２号機で、国際宇宙ステーション（ＩＳＳ）に向かうことが決まったと発表した。星出さんは半年程度とみられる滞在期間中、若田光一さん（５６）に続く日本人２人目のＩＳＳ船長を務めることが決まっている。
　星出さんは当初、今年５月ごろにＩＳＳに向かう予定だったが、クルードラゴンなど新型宇宙船開発の遅れに伴うスケジュール変更で延期になっていた。（2020/07/28-15:02）

Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide will leave for the International Space Station aboard a new U.S. spacecraft next spring, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said Tuesday.
   Hoshide, 51, will stay at the ISS for some six months where he will become the second Japanese to be in command, after Koichi Wakata, 56.
   Initially, Hoshide was scheduled to leave for the ISS around May this year. But the plan was postponed, due chiefly to a delay in the new spacecraft development.
   The spacecraft, Crew Dragon, was developed by Space Exploration Technologies Corp., better known as SpaceX. A test spacecraft carrying two U.S. astronauts successfully docked with the ISS in May.
   Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, 55, is set to join the first operational mission of the Crew Dragon spacecraft to be launched as early as the second half of September. The second operational mission will carry Hoshide to the ISS.