Kimiya Yui

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Kimiya Yui
Kimiya Yui
Country: Japan
Organization: JAXA
selected on February 25, 2009
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: July 22, 2015
Landing: December 11, 2015
Time in space: 141d 16h 09m
Space flights

Kimiya Yui ( Japanese 油井 亀 美 也 , Yui Kimiya ; born January 30, 1970 in Kawakami , Nagano Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese spaceman .

Training and military career

Yui enlisted in the Air Self-Defense Forces in 1992 after graduating from the National Defense Academy of Japan. He flew the F-15J air superiority fighter and worked as a test pilot and on the General Staff of the Air Self-Defense Forces. When he retired from the military in March 2009, he held the rank of lieutenant colonel .

Astronaut activity

In 2009 he was selected with two other candidates to do research as a Japanese astronaut on the International Space Station . From April 2009 to July 2011 he was in special training at NASA for the space flight to the ISS, with increased training on the equipment and the experiments of the Japanese module Kibo .

NEEMO-16

In June 2012, he was a crew member of the NEEMO-16 mission, an underwater research habitat of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) off the coast of Florida, where he worked for twelve days.

Soyuz TMA-17M

In October 2012, Yui was nominated for a long-term stay aboard the ISS. He took off for the ISS on July 22, 2015 together with the Russian commander Oleg Kononenko and the American astronaut Kjell Lindgren in the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft . There he worked until December 11, 2015 as a flight engineer for ISS expeditions 44 and 45 .

In November 2016, Yui became head of the JAXA astronaut group.

Private

Yui is married and has three children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 油井 亀 美 也 さ ん 最終 試 験 に 合格 初 の 宇宙 へ . NHK, May 8, 2015, archived from the original on May 7, 2015 ; Retrieved June 27, 2015 (Japanese).
  2. ^ Astronaut Kimiya Yui Selected as Member of ISS Expedition Crew. JAXA, October 5, 2012, accessed June 26, 2015 .
  3. ↑ JAXA: Kimiya Yui. December 9, 2016, accessed January 15, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Yui, Kimiya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 油井 亀 美 也 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese spaceman
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Kawakami , Japan