Chiaki Mukai

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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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Chiaki Naito
astronaut, physician, surgeon, 

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  • STS-65
    human spaceflight
  • STS-95
    Space Shuttle mission
Japan
KSC-98PC-1274KSC-98PC-1274
KSC-98PC-1274KSC-98PC-1274
STS095-324-011 - STS-095 - Parazynski in the Spacehab module - DPLA - 66a63116f6db71116a60ae893c494e10STS095-324-011 - STS-095 - Parazynski in the Spacehab module - DPLA - 66a63116f6db71116a60ae893c494e10
STS095-324-011 - STS-095 - Parazynski in the Spacehab module - DPLA - 66a63116f6db71116a60ae893c494e10STS095-324-011 - STS-095 - Parazynski in the Spacehab module - DPLA - 66a63116f6db71116a60ae893c494e10
STS065-20-019 - STS-065 - In-flight crew portrait - DPLA - 5f428fd96715b1c6f2e05931d906c0e1STS065-20-019 - STS-065 - In-flight crew portrait - DPLA - 5f428fd96715b1c6f2e05931d906c0e1
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STS095-355-032 - STS-095 - Mukai on aft flight deck with HDTV camera - DPLA - 90cffd8185c669bad0989247fb95216aSTS095-355-032 - STS-095 - Mukai on aft flight deck with HDTV camera - DPLA - 90cffd8185c669bad0989247fb95216a
STS095-355-032 - STS-095 - Mukai on aft flight deck with HDTV camera - DPLA - 90cffd8185c669bad0989247fb95216aSTS095-355-032 - STS-095 - Mukai on aft flight deck with HDTV camera - DPLA - 90cffd8185c669bad0989247fb95216a
STS095-338-017 - STS-095 - NIH-C8 - Mukai on middeck - DPLA - 0f687d7f937fedb713676378180d8e7cSTS095-338-017 - STS-095 - NIH-C8 - Mukai on middeck - DPLA - 0f687d7f937fedb713676378180d8e7c
STS095-338-017 - STS-095 - NIH-C8 - Mukai on middeck - DPLA - 0f687d7f937fedb713676378180d8e7cSTS095-338-017 - STS-095 - NIH-C8 - Mukai on middeck - DPLA - 0f687d7f937fedb713676378180d8e7c