Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi, left, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) International Space Station Program Manager Koichi Wakata, right, answers questions from the media, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017, after the Soyuz rocket was raised into a vertical position on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 54 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA, and flight engineer Norishige Kanai of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are scheduled to launch at 2:21 Eastern Time (1:21 Ba

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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi, left, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) International Space Station Program Manager Koichi Wakata, right, answers questions from the media, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017, after the Soyuz rocket was raised into a vertical position on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 54 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA, and flight engineer Norishige Kanai of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are scheduled to launch at 2:21 Eastern Time (1:21 Baikonur time) on Dec. 17 and will spend the next five months living and working aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

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