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Astronaut Naoko Yamazaki has been chosen as a crew member of a February 2010 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Tuesday.
Yamazaki, 37, the eighth Japanese to travel to space, has a 6-year-old daughter, making her the first Japanese mother to fly into the space.
Five members of STS-130 Space Shuttle Endeavour Crew visit Poland. George Zamka, Terry Virts, Stephen Robinson, Kathryn Hire and Nicholas Patric