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Sōichi Noguchi
Sign in to saveAlso known as Soichi Noguchi, Souichi Noguchi, NOGUCHI Sōichi, NOGUCHI Soichi, NOGUCHI Souichi
Japanese astronaut
Film & TV
Known for
- 野口聡一・劇団ひとりの2030月面テレビ2023
- SWITCH Interview Masters2013
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1965-04-15 ) 15 April 1965 (age 61) , Yokohama , Japan
- Occupation
- Engineer
- Status
- Retired
- Time in space
- 344 days, 9 hours, 33 minutes
- Selection
- 1996 NASDA Group , NASA Group 16 (1996)
- Total eva time
- 27 hours, 1 minute
- Missions
- STS-114 Soyuz TMA-17 ( Expedition 22 / 23 ) SpaceX Crew-1 ( Expedition 64 / 65 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- NASA Astronaut Group 16
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Yokohama
- Occupation
- engineer
- Educated at
- University of Tokyo
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Native language
- Japanese
- Image
- Soichi noguchi v2.jpg
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- 1965-04-15
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- writing language
- Japanese
- time in space
- 495933
- name in native language
- 野口 聡一
- member of the crew of
- SpaceX Crew-1
- social media followers
- 739870
- ethnic group
- Japanese people
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Encyclopedic overview
Soichi Noguchi (野口 聡一, Noguchi Sōichi; born 15 April 1965) 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 also 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 sixth Japanese astronaut to fly in space, the fifth to fly on the Space Shuttle, and the first to fly on Crew Dragon.
His third flight was on board the Dragon 2 capsule for the SpaceX Crew-1 mission which launched successfully on 15 November 2020 and landed on 2 May 2021. This makes him the third astronaut to fly on three different launch systems.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sōichi Noguchi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.