Soichi Noguchi

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Soichi Noguchi (野口 聡一 Noguchi Sōichi, born 15 April 1965 in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese aeronautical engineer and former JAXA astronaut. 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.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Born in

Yokohama

Education

University of Tokyo

Awards

Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"; NASA Space Flight Medal

From Wikidata.

• Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-1Mission Specialist · Success · with Michael S. Hopkins, Shannon Walker, Victor J. GloverNovember 16, 2020
• Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-17Flight Engineer · Success · with Oleg Kotov, Timothy CreamerDecember 20, 2009
• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-114Mission Specialist · Success · with Andy Thomas, Charles Camarda, Eileen Collins, James M. Kelly, Stephen Robinson, Wendy B. LawrenceJuly 26, 2005

• STS-114 EVA 36h 1m2005-08-03
• STS-114 EVA 27h 14m2005-08-01
• STS-114 EVA 16h 50m2005-07-30

• Expedition 64International Space Station · Flight Engineer2020-10-20 – 2021-04-17
• Expedition 23International Space Station · Flight Engineer2010-03-18 – 2010-06-02
• Expedition 22International Space Station · Flight Engineer2009-12-01 – 2010-03-18