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Mamoru "Mark" Mohri (毛利衛
Mōri Mamoru, born 29 January 1948) is a
Japan|Japanese astronaut and a veteran of two NASA
space shuttle missions.

Born in Yoichi, Japan, Mohri earned degrees in
chemistry from Hokkaido University and a doctorate
from Flinders University of South Australia in
1976. Most of Mohri's work has been in the fields
of material and vacuum sciences. From 1975 to
1985, Mohri was a member of the nuclear
engineering faculty of Hokkaido University, where
he worked on nuclear fusion-related projects.
Mohri was selected by the National Space
Development Agency of Japan to train as a payload
specialist for a Japanese materials science
payload. He flew his first space mission aboard
STS-47 in 1992 as chief payload specialist for
Spacelab-J. Mohri subsequently made another trip
into space as part of mission STS-99 in 2000.

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==External link==

* http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/mohri.html
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