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Biography of Koichi Wakata - Astronaut
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Koichi Wakata (若田 光一 Wakata KÅichi, born 1 August 1963) is a Japan|Japanese astronaut and a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions. Wakata, born in Omiya, Saitama, earned a masters degree in applied mathematics from Kyushu University in 1989. He worked as a structural engineer for Japan Airlines. Wakata was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1992 and trained at NASA's Johnson Space Center; he flew aboard STS-72 in 1996 and STS-92 as a mission specialist. japan-bio-stub astronaut-stub ==External link== * http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/wakata.html NASA Biography
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