Japan astronaut Yui heads to ISS on SpaceX craft on 2nd space mission

A team of astronauts from Japan, Russia and the United States headed to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX craft from Florida on Friday, marking the second space flight for Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui.The Crew-11 mission, also involving two Americans and one Russian, will stay at the ISS for about six months, partly to conduct experiments in hopes of helping future lunar exploration. It is expected to reach the ISS in the early hours of Saturday."My fellow Japanese out there, I have come back to space for the first time in 10 years," Yui said in Japanese from inside the Crew …READ FULL ARTICLE