Expedition 18 crew member and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi

JSC2008-E-044815 (4 June 2008) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, Expedition 22/23 flight engineer, awaits the start of a training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. Noguchi is wearing a training version of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit.