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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.


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==External link==

* http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/doi.html
NASA Biography