Koichi Wakata

Birthday: 1963-08-01

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Biography: Koichi Wakata is a Japanese engineer and an astronaut. Wakata retired from JAXA in 2024 after a career in spaceflight spanning nearly two decades. He logged over 500 days in space across five missions: three aboard the Space Shuttle, one on the Soyuz, and one on the Crew Dragon.

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