ASTRONAUT PLAYS BASEBALL IN SPACE STATION

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Japan Aerospace exploration Agency (JAXA) released pictures of an astronaut, Satoshi Furukawa (47), playing baseball in the International Space Station. Furukawa, medical doctor from The University of Tokyo, who played catcher in junior high and high school baseball clubs, pitched, hit and caught the same ball by himself under weightless state.

Furukawa will be landing in Kazakhstan on board the Russian spacecraft Soyuz on November 22nd after 165 days stay in space.

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