Chiaki Mukai is a Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights, and the first Asian woman in space. 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.
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Wikimedia , Wikidata Chiaki Naitoastronaut, physician, surgeon,
STS-65 ⓘ human spaceflight
STS-95 ⓘ Space Shuttle mission
STS095-338-017 - STS-095 - NIH-C8 - Mukai on middeck - DPLA - 0f687d7f937fedb713676378180d8e7c
STS095-338-017 - STS-095 - NIH-C8 - Mukai on middeck - DPLA - 0f687d7f937fedb713676378180d8e7c
Type Subtype Date Description Notes Source
class orbit STS-65 Carl E. Walz, Chiaki Mukai, Donald A. Thomas, James D. Halsell, Leroy Chiao, Richard Hieb, Robert D. Cabana, human spaceflight, Wikidata class orbit STS-95 Chiaki Mukai, Curtis Brown, John Glenn, Pedro Duque, Scott E. Parazynski, Stephen Robinson, Steven Lindsey, human spaceflight, Wikidata
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Commons commons image STS095-324-011 - STS-095 - Parazynski in the Spacehab module - DPLA - 66a63116f6db71116a60ae893c494e10
Commons commons image STS095-324-011 - STS-095 - Parazynski in the Spacehab module - DPLA - 66a63116f6db71116a60ae893c494e10
Commons commons image STS065-20-019 - STS-065 - In-flight crew portrait - DPLA - 5f428fd96715b1c6f2e05931d906c0e1
Commons commons image STS065-20-019 - STS-065 - In-flight crew portrait - DPLA - 5f428fd96715b1c6f2e05931d906c0e1
Commons commons image STS095-355-032 - STS-095 - Mukai on aft flight deck with HDTV camera - DPLA - 90cffd8185c669bad0989247fb95216a
Commons commons image STS095-355-032 - STS-095 - Mukai on aft flight deck with HDTV camera - DPLA - 90cffd8185c669bad0989247fb95216a
Commons commons image STS095-338-017 - STS-095 - NIH-C8 - Mukai on middeck - DPLA - 0f687d7f937fedb713676378180d8e7c
Commons commons image STS095-338-017 - STS-095 - NIH-C8 - Mukai on middeck - DPLA - 0f687d7f937fedb713676378180d8e7c
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