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Sōichi Noguchi

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Sōichi Noguchi

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Also known as Soichi Noguchi, Souichi Noguchi, NOGUCHI Sōichi, NOGUCHI Soichi, NOGUCHI Souichi

Japanese astronaut

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 )

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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.

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