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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (独立行政法人宇宙航空研究開発機構, Dokuritsu-gyōsei-hōjin Uchū Kōkū Kenkyū Kaihatsu Kikō, lit. "Independent Administration on the Exploration and Aviation of Space Study and Development Organization"), or JAXA, is Japan's national aerospace agency. JAXA was formed on October...
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Naoko Yamazaki
Naoko Yamazaki (山崎 直子 Yamazaki Naoko) (born December 27, 1970) is a JAXA astronaut, and the second Japanese woman to qualify as an astronaut. The first was Chiaki Mukai.
After graduating from Ochanomizu University Senior High School in 1989,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 27, 1970 (age 39 years)
Takao Doi
Takao Doi (土井隆雄 Doi Takao, born September 18, 1954) is a Japanese astronaut and a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions.
Doi holds a doctorate from the University of Tokyo in aerospace engineering, and has studied and published in the fields of...
Date of birth:
- Sep 18, 1954 (age 55 years)
Mamoru Mohri
Mamoru "Mark" Mohri (毛利衛 Mōri Mamoru, born 29 January 1948 is a Japanese scientist, a former NASDA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions.
Born in Yoichi, Japan, Mohri earned degrees in chemistry from Hokkaido University and a...
Date of birth:
- Jan 29, 1948 (age 61 years)
Koichi Wakata
Koichi Wakata (若田 光一 Wakata Kōichi, born 1 August 1963) is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut. Wakata is a veteran of four NASA Space Shuttle missions and a long-duration stay on the International Space Station.
Wakata was born in Omiya,...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1, 1963 (age 46 years)
Chiaki Mukai
Chiaki Mukai (向井千秋 Mukai Chiaki, born May 6, 1952) (M.D., Ph.D.) is a Japanese doctor, a NASDA astronaut and a lecturer at International Space University.
Chiaki Mukai, née Chiaki Naito (内藤千秋 Naitō Chiaki), was born in Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture,...
Date of birth:
- May 6, 1952 (age 57 years)
Soichi Noguchi
Soichi Noguchi (野口聡一 Noguchi Sōichi, born 15 April 1965 in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese aeronautical engineer and a JAXA astronaut. His first spaceflight was as a Mission Specialist aboard STS-114 on 26 July 2005 for NASA's first "return to flight...
Date of birth:
- Apr 15, 1965 (age 44 years)
Satoshi Furukawa
Satoshi Furukawa Furukawa Satoshi (古川 聡, born 1964) is a Japanese surgeon and a JAXA astronaut.
Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He enjoys baseball, bowling, music and traveling. He is married and has two children.
He graduated from Eiko high...
Date of birth:
- Apr 4, 1964 (age 45 years)
Akihiko Hoshide
Akihiko Hoshide (星出 彰彦, Hoshide Akihiko, born December 28, 1968) is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut.
He was born in 1968 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, but grew up in New Jersey. He received an International Baccalaureate Diploma from the...
Date of birth:
- Dec 28, 1968 (age 41 years)
Kimiya Yui
Kimiya Yui (油井亀美也, Yui Kimiya) is a Japanese astronaut from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, who has been selected in 2009.
Yui, from Nagano Prefecture, enrolled at the Japan Air Self-Defense Force after graduating from the National Defense...
