Soichi Noguchi
Soichi Noguchi, born 15 April 1965 in Yokohama, Japan, is a Japanese aeronautical engineer and a JAXA astronaut. His first spaceflight was as a Mission Specialist aboard STS-114 on 26 July 2005 for NASA\'s first \"return to flight\" Space Shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster. He was most recently in space as part of the Soyuz TMA-17 crew and Expedition 22 to the International Space Station, returning to Earth on 2 June 2010. He is the fifth Japanese astronaut to fly in space and the fourth to fly on the space shuttle. Noguchi graduated from Chigasaki-Hokuryo High School, in Chigasaki, in 1984, and then studied at the University of Tokyo, earning a bachelor\'s degree in 1989 and a master\'s degree in 1991, both in Aeronautical Engineering. Noguchi was selected as an astronaut candidate by the National Space Development Agency of Japan (now part of JAXA) in June 1996. In August 1996.
Spaceflights:
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 STS-114 MSP 26.07.2005 - 09.08.2005 13d 21h 32m
2 Soyuz TMA-17 / ISS-22 / ISS-23 Flight Engineer 20.12.2009 - 02.06.2010 163d 05h 32m
Total 177d 03h 04m
