Present during the same 1992 space mission as Jemison, which was a cooperative mission between the United States and Japan, was Chiaki Mukai, the first Japanese woman to enter space. Mukai spent a ...
Here Glenn describes two Florida photos taken more than 30 years apart, and pokes good-natured fun at his young crewmates (mission commander) Curt Brown, Chiaki Mukai of Japan, and Pedro Duque of ...
Mamoru Mori was JAXA's first astronaut aboard a NASA space shuttle in 1992, followed by Chiaki Mukai in 1994. Mori, Mukai and Takao Doi initially served as mission scientists who only conducted ...