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Koichi Wakata
ISS Expedition 18/19/20 Flight Engineer
JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata is a veteran of two space missions. Born in 1963, he is married and has one child.
He was the first Japanese Mission Specialist on the STS-72 Shuttle mission (11-20 January, 1996) during which he was the robotic arm operator for satellite deployment and retrieval.
During the STS-92 mission (October 11-24, 2000) he was also the first Japanese astronaut to work on an ISS assembly mission, which attached the Z1 Truss and Pressurized Mating Adapter 3 to the ISS.
Wakata was launched to the ISS on the STS-119 mission on 15 March 2009 and became the first Expedition crew member from Japan, first as a member of Expedition 18 and currently Expedition 19.
He returned to Earth with Shuttle Flight STS-127, the next ISS assembly mission.
Last update: 29 September 2009
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