Hoshide, who is from Tokyo, flew on a 2008 mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery and has flown on the Soyuz. He’s also been deeply involved in the training of other Japanese astronauts. Pesquet, from Rouen, France, first went to space in 2016 on the Soyuz, when he became only the 10th astronaut from France to go to space after a nine-year drought. During that mission, he performed two spacewalks.