Satoshi Furukawa
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| Country: | Japan |
| Organization: | JAXA |
| selected on | February 1999 |
| Calls: | 1 space flight |
| Begin: | June 7, 2011 |
| Landing: | November 22, 2011 |
| Time in space: | 167d 06h 13min |
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Satoshi Furukawa ( Japanese 古 川 聡 , Furukawa Satoshi ; born April 4, 1964 in Yokohama , Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese astronaut .
Life
Furukawa graduated from Eiko High School in Kamakura in 1983 . He then studied medicine at the University of Tokyo and received his doctorate there in 1989. In 2000 he also received his doctorate in scientific medicine at the same university.
Furukawa is married and has two children.
Astronaut activity
In 1999 he and two other candidates were selected to visit the ISS as a Japanese astronaut . Since April 2001 he has been in the special training for space flight to the ISS, the training on the equipment and the experiments of the Japanese module Kibo is reinforced . In May 2004 he completed his training in Russia for the Soyuz-TMA spacecraft at the Yuri-Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center . From June 2004 to February 2006 he received training for the Space Shuttle and the ISS at the Johnson Space Center , so that he can be used as a mission specialist. In August 2007 he was a crew member of the NEEMO -13 mission, a submarine research habitat of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) off the coast of Florida, where he worked for ten days.
In October 2009 Furukawa was nominated for a long stay aboard the ISS. He was on board the ISS from June to November 2011 as a flight engineer for Expeditions 28 and 29 .
See also
Web links
- Short biography of Satoshi Furukawa at spacefacts.de
- Biography of Satoshi Furukawa in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ NASA and its International Partners Assign Space Station Crews. In: Release 09-233. NASA, October 7, 2009, accessed October 14, 2009 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Furukawa, Satoshi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 古 川 聡 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | japanese astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4th 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yokohama , Japan |