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Chiaki Mukai, Japanese physician and astronaut

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Chiaki Mukai

Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut (born 1952)

Chiaki Mukai is a Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights, and the first Asian woman in space. Both were Space Shuttle missions; her first was STS-65 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in…
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May 6

Day of the year

May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 239 days remain until the end of the year.
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