Toyohiro Akiyama
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| Toyohiro Akiyama (1985). | |
| Country: | Japan |
| Organization: | TBS |
| selected on | August 17, 1989 ( TV Journalists Japan ) |
| Calls: | 1 space flight |
| Begin: | 2nd December 1990 |
| Landing: | December 10, 1990 |
| Time in space: | 7d 21h 54min |
| retired on | December 1990 |
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Toyohiro Akiyama ( Japanese 秋山 豊 寛 , Akiyama Toyohiro ; born July 22, 1942 in Setagaya , Tokyo ) is a former Japanese television journalist who became known for his 1990 flight on a Soyuz spaceship to the Soviet Mir space station . He is the first Japanese to fly into space.
Life
In 1971 Akiyama became a reporter for the Japanese television station Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS). Between 1967 and 1971 he also worked for the BBC World Service .
With the selection of Akiyama in August 1989, the Soviet space agency began to sell individual seats on Soyuz flights to non-state companies. For the December 1990 Soyuz TM-11 flight , a seat was sold to TBS for $ 28 million. Akiyama was the first space traveler whose mission was not funded by his state and was also the first Japanese to fly into space. In addition to him, the camerawoman Ryoko Kikuchi was trained for the flight, but she was canceled a week before take-off due to an appendix removal.
Soyuz TM-11 was launched on December 2, 1990 from Baikonur . Akiyama aired ten minutes of television broadcast and 20 minutes of radio reports daily. The landing took place on December 10, 1990 on board Soyuz TM-10 in the Kazakh SSR .
After his flight into space, he became the assistant director of the news division of TBS until he left TBS in October 1995.
He then grew rice , vegetables and shiitake mushrooms as an organic farmer in Tamura ( Fukushima Prefecture ) . Because of the nuclear disaster in 2011 in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 32 km away , he moved to Fujioka in Gunma Prefecture .
Toyohiro Akiyama is married and has two children.
The asteroid (4714) Toyohiro was named after him.
See also
Web links
- Short biography on spacefacts.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Zimmerman: Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel . Joseph Henry Press, 2003, ISBN 0-309-52750-3 , pp. 293 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Astronaut turned organic farmer reflects on modern Japan and evacuation from Fukushima. (No longer available online.) In: Mainichi Daily News. August 7, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 10, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Akiyama, Toyohiro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 秋山 豊 寛 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | japanese cosmonaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Setagaya , Japan |