Toyohiro Akiyama
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First Japanese astronaut
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Engineering Physics
Toyohiro Akiyama's Degrees
- Bachelors Aerospace Engineering University of Tokyo
Why Is Toyohiro Akiyama Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Toyohiro Akiyama is a retired Japanese TV journalist and professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design. In December 1990, he spent seven days aboard the Mir space station. He became the first person of Japanese nationality to fly in space, and his space mission was the second spaceflight to be commercially sponsored and funded. Akiyama was also the first civilian to use commercial space flight, and the first journalist to report from outer space.
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