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 S
Chiaki Mukai
Chiaki Mukai in Advanced Crew Escape Suits
Chiaki Mukai in 2013
STS-95
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STS-95 was a Space Shuttle mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 29 October 1998, using the orbiter Discovery. It was the 25th flight of Discovery and the 92nd mission flown since the
Chiaki Mukai
…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…
John Glenn in the Spacehab Single Module during flight
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The seven crew members pose for photographers prior to participating in a training session
STS-95 lands at the Shuttle Landing Facility, 7 November 1998