Koichi Wakata, JAXA vice president and astronaut, helps chart future of ISS and human space exploration

Koichi Wakata, the Japanese space agency's vice president and director general for human spaceflight technology, is intimately familiar with the International Space Station. As an astronaut, he helped assemble the space station in 2000 and lived onboard for four months in 2009 and six months in 2013 and 2014. SpaceNews.com