CREW 21/22 . ... ISS-21 IMAGE . ... EXPEDITION 22/23 (ISS-22/23) . BACKUP CREW . ... Satoshi FURUKAWA . ... JAXA Astronaut, Japan . ... From April 1999 to January 24, 2001 he passed general space training at NASDA Astronaut Office, Tsukuba Science City and was certified as an astronaut. ... On May 14, 2008 JAXA declared of the achievement of the preliminary agreement between the ISS program participants and Furukawa assignment to in the backup crew of Expedition 22 to the ISS. ...