Takao Doi

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Takao Doi
Takao Doi
Country: Japan
Organization: JAXA
selected on August 7, 1985
(1st NASDA Group)
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		November 19, 1997
Landing of the
last space flight: 		March 27, 2008
Time in space: 31d 9h 45m
EVA inserts: 2
EVA total duration: 12h 42m
retired on September 13, 2009
Space flights

Takao Doi ( Japanese 土井 隆 雄 , Doi Takao ; born September 18, 1954 in Minamitama-Gun , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan ) is a former Japanese astronaut . He was the first Japanese to go on an spacecraft mission.

Takao Doi received a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1978 , a master's degree in engineering in 1980, and a doctorate in aerospace engineering in 1983. He also received his doctorate in 2004 at the Rice University about astronomy .

Doi has published over 40 publications in the fields of chemical and electrical propulsion systems, fluid dynamics, weightlessness and astronomy.

Takao Doi studied space propulsion systems as a research student at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Japan from 1983 to 1985. In 1985 he worked for the Lewis Research Center of NASA as a research member of the National Research Council .

Doi joined the Japanese space agency NASDA (National Space Development Agency) in 1985 and has since worked in the Japanese manned space program. From 1987 to 1988 he carried out research in the field of fluid dynamics in weightlessness at the University of Colorado and in 1989 as a visiting scientist at the National Aerospace Laboratory in Japan.

Astronaut activity

In 1992 he was a replacement payload specialist for the Japanese Spacelab mission STS-47 . In 1994 he worked as a project scientist on the International Microgravity Laboratory 2 mission STS-65 .

STS-87

On November 19, 1997, Doi took off into space for the first time as a mission specialist on the Columbia space shuttle . STS-87 was a Spacelab flight, which was called "United States Microgravity Payload 4". Doi carried out two space exits (EVAs) with the mission specialist Winston Scott . During the first EVA, they caught the SPARTAN research satellite , which had been launched at the beginning of the flight and which had fallen into an uncontrolled tumble. In addition, the so-called AERCam was tested for the first time, an approximately 40 centimeter ball that is equipped with a position control and camera system and can explore structures that are difficult to access. Scott let it float out of the payload bay and the pilot Steven Lindsey controlled AERCam by remote control from the cockpit. On December 5th, the space shuttle landed at the Kennedy Space Center .

STS-123

Doi was a mission specialist on the STS-123 flight, which brought the first section of the Japanese Kibō module and the Canadian robotic hand Dextre to the International Space Station in March 2008 .

Further career

In September 2009 Doi started to work at the United Nations Agency for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) .

Private

Doi is married to Hitomi Abe.

See also

Web links and receipts

Commons : Takao Doi  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Doi, Takao
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 土井 隆 雄 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION japanese astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Minamitama-gun , Tokyo Prefecture