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March 31, 2024. Koichi Wakata (若田 光一, Wakata Kōichi, born 1 August 1963) is a Japanese engineer and an astronaut working for Axiom Space. He retired from JAXA in 2024. Wakata is a veteran of four NASA Space Shuttle missions, a Russian Soyuz mission, and a long-duration stay on the International Space Station. [1]
Koichi Wakata (若田 光一, Wakata Koichi?, nacido el 1 de agosto 1963) es un ingeniero japonés y astronauta de la JAXA. Wakata es un veterano de tres misiones en el transbordador espacial de la NASA y una Soyuz en una estancia de larga duración en la Estación Espacial Internacional. [1]
Koichi Wakata, a recognized leader in the global space community, serves as astronaut and chief technology officer of the Asia-Pacific region at Axiom Space. A veteran astronaut with decades of human spaceflight experience, Wakata leads the expansion of Axiom Space's business and strategic presence in the Asia-Pacific region and contributes to ...
13 de may. de 2024 · Koichi Wakata is a Japanese astronaut who accumulated a number of records during his career. Among them, he spent the longest time in space of anyone who was not an American astronaut or a Russian cosmonaut, staying in orbit for over 504 days. He was the first Japanese astronaut to go on five.
Learn about WAKATA Koichi, the first Japanese astronaut to fly on Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX missions, and the first Japanese ISS commander. See his biography, achievements, spacewalks, and social media.
7 de oct. de 2022 · Astronaut Koichi Wakata arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday to begin his fifth space mission, a new record for a Japanese astronaut, after a U.S. SpaceX spacecraft...
JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata is a veteran of two space missions. Born in 1963, he is married and has one child. Koichi was the first Japanese Mission Specialist on the STS-72 Shuttle mission (11-20 January 1996) during which he was the robotic arm operator for satellite deployment and retrieval.
