Akihiko Hoshide Astronaut

Akihiko Hoshide (星出 彰彦, Hoshide Akihiko, born December 28, 1968) is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut. On August 30, 2012, Hoshide became the third Japanese astronaut to walk in space.

Personal facts

Akihiko Hoshide
Birth dateDecember 28, 1968
Birth place
Japan , Setagaya Tokyo
Nationality
Japan

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Astronaut

missions
Expedition 32
Expedition 33
Soyuz TMA-05M
STS-124
selection
List of astronauts by year of selection
statusActive
Time in space140 days 17 hours 26 minutes

Akihiko Hoshide on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/hoshide-a.html
  2. http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/international/english/hoshide_akihiko.htm