Koichi Wakata (若田 光一, Wakata Kōichi, born 1 August 1963) is a Japanese engineer and an astronaut working for Axiom Space. He retired from JAXA in 2024. Wakata is a veteran of four NASA Space Shuttle missions, a Russian Soyuz mission, and a long-duration stay on the International Space Station.[1] During a nearly two-decade career in spaceflight, he has logged more than five hundred days in space. During Expedition 39, he became the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station. Wakata flew on the Soyuz TMA-11M/Expedition 38/Expedition 39 long duration spaceflight from 7 November 2013 to 13 May 2014. During this spaceflight he was accompanied by Kirobo, the first humanoid robot astronaut.[2] As of 2023, he is the longest active astronaut in the world.[3]
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^"Active Astronauts and Cosmonauts". www.spacefacts.de. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
KoichiWakata (若田 光一, WakataKōichi, born 1 August 1963) is a Japanese engineer and an astronaut working for Axiom Space. He retired from JAXA in 2024...
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astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria, Peggy Whitson, Brent W. Jett Jr and KoichiWakata. The company sent its first commercial astronauts into orbit in 2022...
developed by University of Tokyo and Tomotaka Takahashi, to accompany KoichiWakata, the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station. Kirobo...
November 2008 00:55 UTC STS-126 28 March 2009 19:13 UTC STS-119 133.76 KoichiWakata 15 March 2009 23:43 UTC STS-119 Transferred to Expedition 19 Expedition...
Native American woman to go on a spacewalk, which she went on with KoichiWakata. Nicole Victoria Aunapu Mann was born on June 27, 1977, to Howard and...
the ISS had been under command of a Japanese astronaut, space veteran KoichiWakata. After Expedition 21 in 2009 and Expedition 35 in 2013, it was only...
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International Space Station. Sources JAXA, NASA, ESA JAXA. "Astronaut KoichiWakata Selected as Member of ISS Expedition Crew". Retrieved 2011-02-17. "NASA...
departing on STS-119 on 25 March 2009. She was replaced by JAXA astronaut KoichiWakata, who arrived at the ISS on STS-119 on 17 March 2009. Gregory Chamitoff...
launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (2007–2021) KoichiWakata (Japan) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX Crew Dragon...
domain. @jaxa_wdc (12 October 2021). "JAXA has announced their WAKATAKoichi @Astro_Wakata is headed for the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's…"...
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KoichiWakata Nicole Mann First spacewalk of 2023 to finish installation of the IROSA mounting brackets on the starboard side of the station. Wakata and...
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