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May 06, 1952 Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan 72 years old
Japanese woman astronaut, medical doctor
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About Chiaki Mukai
- Chiaki Mukai (?? ??, Mukai Chiaki, born May 6, 1952, Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan) is a Japanese physician 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. Mukai was selected to be an astronaut by Japanese national space agency NASDA (now called JAXA) in 1985.
- Prior to this, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Keio University, the oldest university in Japan.
- In 2015, she became Vice President of the Tokyo University of Science.
- In addition, she became JAXA Technical Counselor.
