Koichi Wakata
Birth Date
8/1/1963 (63)Departments
Biography
Koichi Wakata is a Japanese engineer and an astronaut. Wakata retired from JAXA in 2024 after a career in spaceflight spanning nearly two decades. He logged over 500 days in space across five missions: three aboard the Space Shuttle, one on the Soyuz, and one on the Crew Dragon.
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Frequent Collaborators
Toni Myers
2 films together
Tom Cruise
1 film together
James Neihouse
1 film together
Maribeth Solomon
1 film together
Micky Erbe
1 film together
James H. Newman
1 film together
