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Biography of Takao Doi - Astronaut
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Takao Doi (土井隆雄 Doi Takao) is a Japan|Japanese astronaut and a veteran of one NASA space shuttle mission. Doi holds a doctorate from the University of Tokyo in aerospace engineering, and has studied and published in the fields of propulsion systems, and microgravity technology. He worked for the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science and on the Japanese manned space program while also conducting research in the United States at NASA's Lewis Research Center and the University of Colorado. Doi was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate in 1985 and flew as a mission specialist aboard STS-87 in 1997, during which he became the first Japanese astronaut to conduct a spacewalk. Japan-bio-stub astronaut-stub ==External link== * http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/doi.html NASA Biography

