Chiaki Mukai is a Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, and was the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights. Both were Space Shuttle missions; her first was STS-65 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1994, which was a Spacelab mission. Her second spaceflight was STS-95 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998. In total she has spent 23 days in space.
Mukai was selected to be an astronaut by Japanese national space agency NASDA in 1985. Prior to this, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Keio University, the oldest university in Japan. In 2015, she became Vice President of the Tokyo University of Science. In addition, she became JAXA Technical Counselor. Wikipedia
And I strongly believe that "Education enables us to envision and to pursue our dreams." <br class="br">Source: Space and I, Chiaki Mukai http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/space-and-i/
Source: Space and I, Chiaki Mukai http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/space-and-i/
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