Soichi Noguchi

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.

• Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-1 — Mission Specialist · Success · November 16, 2020
• Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-17 — Flight Engineer · Success · December 20, 2009
• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-114 — Mission Specialist · Success · July 26, 2005

• STS-114 EVA 3 — 2005-08-03 · 6h 1m
• STS-114 EVA 2 — 2005-08-01 · 7h 14m
• STS-114 EVA 1 — 2005-07-30 · 6h 50m