The JAXA Astronaut Corps is a unit of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members for...

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The European Astronaut Corps is a unit of the European Space Agency (ESA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members on U.S. and Russian...

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Suwa as astronauts]. JAXA (Press release) (in Japanese). October 22, 2024. Retrieved 2024-12-24. [The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been...

1970 in Kawakami, Nagano, Japan) is a Japanese astronaut from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). He was selected for the agency in 2009. Yui...

spacecraft, she was accompanied by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko. Williams served...

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...

engineer, JAXA astronaut, and former commander of the International Space Station. On August 30, 2012, Hoshide became the third Japanese astronaut to walk...

has media related to Astronaut training. NASA Astronauts CSA Astronauts ESA Astronauts JAXA Astronauts Roscosmos Archived 2012-10-16 at the Wayback Machine...

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Kutryk, Canada's newest astronauts". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 9 January 2019. "History of the Canadian astronaut corps". Canadian Space Agency....

ISS on July 22, 2015, bringing NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui to join Expedition 44. During...

born 22 December 1975) is a Japanese astronaut who was selected for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in 2009. He spent four months on board...

size of the astronaut corps at the end of the Shuttle program, fewer astronauts are available to perform CAPCOM duties, so non-astronauts from the space...

聡, Furukawa Satoshi, born April 4, 1964) is a Japanese surgeon and JAXA astronaut. Furukawa was assigned to the International Space Station as a flight...

宣茂, Kanai Norishige, born 5 December 1976) is a Japanese doctor and JAXA astronaut. He is a lieutenant and Diving Medical Officer in the Japan Maritime...

Kelly. The group also includes Lisa Nowak, who was expelled from the astronaut corps in 2007. Duane G. Carey (1 flight) STS-109 Columbia (Hubble Space Telescope...

also allowed NASA to make major changes to its Astronaut Corps. While almost all previous astronauts were Air Force or Naval test pilots, the Space Shuttle...

the official title of astronaut in January 2020. She has been assigned as the backup for Jeremy Hansen for Artemis II. Japan's JAXA has sent two women to...

and received warm greetings from NASA on her return. Her replacement, JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata, was launched aboard Discovery on March 15, 2009. On September...

Sardinia, alongside fellow NASA astronaut Jack Fisher, CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and Roscosmos...

any direct human involvement. People trained for spaceflight are called astronauts (American or other), cosmonauts (Russian), or taikonauts (Chinese); and...

Stephanie Wilson Chief Astronaut Reid Wiseman said in August 2022, however, that all 42 active members of the NASA Astronaut Corps, and the ten more training...

rather as a member of the French CNES astronaut corps, the German Ulf Merbold is considered the first ESA astronaut to fly into space. He participated in...

specialist alongside NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough commander of the Crew Dragon, Megan McArthur the pilot, and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, the other...

was assigned as the mission's pilot and Stephen Robinson and Japanese JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi were assigned as mission specialists. The mission would...