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Soichi Noguchi
Japanese astronaut and engineer (born 1965) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soichi Noguchi (野口 聡一, Noguchi Sōichi, born 15 April 1965) is a Japanese aeronautical engineer and former 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 also in space as part of the Soyuz TMA-17 crew and Expedition 22 to the International Space Station (ISS), returning to Earth on 2 June 2010. He is the sixth Japanese astronaut to fly in space, the fifth to fly on the Space Shuttle, and the first to fly on Crew Dragon.[2]
Soichi Noguchi | |
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![]() Noguchi at Ellington Field in 2020 | |
Born | (1965-04-15) 15 April 1965 (age 59) Yokohama, Japan |
Status | Retired |
Nationality | ![]() |
Occupation | Engineer |
Space career | |
NASDA/JAXA astronaut | |
Time in space | 344 days 9 hours 33 minutes |
Selection | 1996 NASDA Group |
Total EVAs | 4[1] |
Total EVA time | 27h 01min[1] |
Missions | STS-114, Soyuz TMA-17 (Expedition 22/23), SpaceX Crew-1 (Expedition 64/65) |
Mission insignia | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
His third flight was on board the Dragon 2 capsule for the SpaceX Crew-1 mission which launched successfully on 15 November 2020 and landed on 2 May 2021. This makes him the third astronaut to fly on three different launch systems.[2]
He became a part-time lecturer at the graduate school of the University of Tokyo since 2011, a project professor since 2021.[3] As of 2022,[update] he is a project professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Nihon University.[4]
He retired from astronaut duty and quit JAXA on 1 June 2022.[5] He assumed the honorary director of CupNoodles Museum since 7 June 2022,[6] the chief executive fellow of the Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies[7] and the advisor of IHI Corporation since 1 July 2022.[8] He is the representative of MiraiSpace Co., Ltd. (合同会社未来圏).[8][9]