Takuya Ōnishi
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| Country: | Japan |
| Organization: | JAXA |
| selected on | February 25, 2009 |
| Calls: | 1 space flight |
| Begin: | July 7, 2016 |
| Landing: | October 30, 2016 |
| Time in space: | 115d 02h 22min |
| Space flights | |
Takuya Ōnishi ( Japanese 大西 卓 哉 , Ōnishi Takuya ; born December 22, 1975 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese astronaut .
Aviation careers
Ōnishi completed a two-year basic flight training in Bakersfield , California and a year later flight training in Tokyo. He was copilot for the Boeing 767 at All Nippon Airways and flew both national and international routes.
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 . In October 2011, he was a crew member of the NEEMO-15 mission, an underwater research habitat of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) off the coast of Florida, where he worked for twelve days.
In 2012 Ōnishi was nominated for a long-term stay on board the ISS. He started on July 7, 2016, together with the Russian cosmonaut Anatoli Iwanischin and the American astronaut Kathleen Rubins in the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft for the ISS. There he worked as a flight engineer for Expeditions 48 and 49 until October 30, 2016 .
Private
Ōnishi is married and has no children.
Web links
- JAXA: Biography (English)
- Spacefacts: Short biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ 大西 卓 哉 宇宙 飛行 士 . JAXA, accessed December 11, 2018 (Japanese).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ōnishi, Takuya |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 大西 卓 哉 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | japanese astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo prefecture |