Flight record
2 flights on padside's record, flying from 1994 to 1998.
2Flights
23d 15hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Chiaki Mukai (向井 千秋 Mukai Chiaki, born May 6, 1952, Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan) is a Japanese doctor and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, and was the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights. Both were Space Shuttle missions; her first was STS-65 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1994, which was a Spacelab mission. Her second spaceflight was STS-95 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998. In total she has spent 23 days in space.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Tatebayashi
- Education
- Keio University
- Awards
- Knight of the Legion of Honour; Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-95October 29, 1998
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-65July 8, 1994
Born 1952-05-06 · age 74