Frank De Winne training in Japan Format 16:9 This is an overview of the Belgian ESA astronaut Frank De Winnes training with the Japanese Space Agency, JAXA, in Tsukuba. Frank is currently scheduled to fly to the ISS in May 2009, along with the Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk and the Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov. The video features interviews in Tsukuba with Frank De Winne, the Dutch ESA astronaut André Kuipers (wholl be acting as his backup) and Robert Thirsk, plus coverage of their training in Japan.