Soichi Noguchi
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Born | Yokohama, Japan | 15 April 1965
Status | Active |
Nationality | 22x20px Japan |
Occupation | Engineer |
Space career | |
NASDA/JAXA Astronaut | |
Time in space | 344 days 9 hours 33 minutes |
Selection | 1996 NASDA Group |
Total EVAs | 4[1] |
Total EVA time | 27h 01min[1] |
Missions | STS-114, Soyuz TMA-17 (Expedition 22/23), SpaceX Crew-1 (Expedition 64/65) |
Mission insignia | File:STS-114 patch.svg File:ISS Expedition 22 Patch.svg File:ISS Expedition 23 Patch.svg 50px 53px 35px |
His first spaceflight was as a Mission Specialist aboard STS-114 on 26 July 2005 for NASA's first "return to flight" Space Shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster.
He was most recently in space as part of the Soyuz TMA-17 crew and Expedition 22 to the International Space Station (ISS), returning to Earth on 2 June 2010.
He is the fifth Japanese astronaut to fly in space and the fourth to fly on the space shuttle.[1]
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Soichi Noguchi on his first spacewalk
During the mission's second spacewalk, STS-114 astronaut Soichi Noguchi waves from the Shuttle payload bay
A tracking camera on Launch Pad 39B captures a close-up of Space Shuttle Discovery moments after liftoff on the historic Return to Flight mission STS-114.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Soichi Noguchi - EVA experience". www.spacefacts.de.