1952 - Today
Chiaki Mukai (向井 千秋, Mukai Chiaki, born May 6, 1952) is a Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights, and the first Asian woman in space. Both were Space Shuttle missions; her first was STS-65 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1994, which was a Spacelab mission. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chiaki Mukai has received more than 182,507 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Chiaki Mukai is the 152nd most popular astronaut (up from 154th in 2019), the 1,143rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,049th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Astronaut.
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Among astronauts, Chiaki Mukai ranks 152 out of 524. Before her are Roberta Bondar, Vitaly Sevastyanov, David M. Brown, Pavel Vinogradov, Valentina Ponomaryova, and William E. Thornton. After her are Elliot See, Charles Bassett, Story Musgrave, Owen Garriott, Yury Malyshev, and Edward Gibson.
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 146
1935 - 2010
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 147
1956 - 2003
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 148
1953 - Present
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 149
1933 - 2023
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 150
1929 - 2021
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 151
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 152
1927 - 1966
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 153
1931 - 1966
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 154
1935 - Present
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 155
1930 - 2019
HPI: 46.70
Rank: 156
1941 - 1999
HPI: 46.70
Rank: 157
1936 - Present
HPI: 46.66
Rank: 158
Among people born in 1952, Chiaki Mukai ranks 322. Before her are Jenő Jandó, Ana Obregón, Tony Kaye, Luis Moreno Ocampo, Michel Blanc, and Fernando Morena. After her are Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev, Piercarlo Ghinzani, Helmuts Balderis, Bogusław Linda, Bill Walton, and Ali Gomaa.
1952 - 2023
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 316
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.14
Rank: 317
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 318
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 319
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 320
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 321
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 322
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 323
1952 - Present
HPI: 46.99
Rank: 324
1952 - Present
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 325
1952 - Present
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 326
1952 - Present
HPI: 46.88
Rank: 327
1952 - Present
HPI: 46.88
Rank: 328
Among people born in Japan, Chiaki Mukai ranks 1,143 out of 6,048. Before her are Takeshi Ono (1944), Tsuru Aoki (1892), Yoshiko Kuga (1931), Hiroshi Kamiya (1975), Riichi Yokomitsu (1898), and Daimaou Kosaka (1973). After her are Yukihiro Matsumoto (1965), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), Gackt (1973), Minami Takayama (1964), Nobuo Kishi (1959), and Takayuki Kubota (1934).
1944 - Present
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 1,137
1892 - 1961
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 1,138
1931 - Present
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 1,139
1975 - Present
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 1,140
1898 - 1947
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 1,141
1973 - Present
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 1,142
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 1,143
1965 - Present
HPI: 46.99
Rank: 1,144
1970 - Present
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 1,145
1973 - Present
HPI: 46.96
Rank: 1,146
1964 - Present
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 1,147
1959 - Present
HPI: 46.94
Rank: 1,148
1934 - Present
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 1,149
Among astronauts born in Japan, Chiaki Mukai ranks 2. Before her are Toyohiro Akiyama (1942). After her are Akihiko Hoshide (1968), Mamoru Mohri (1948), Soichi Noguchi (1965), Koichi Wakata (1963), Takao Doi (1954), Naoko Yamazaki (1970), Satoshi Furukawa (1964), Kimiya Yui (1970), Takuya Onishi (1975), and Norishige Kanai (1976).
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 1
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 2
1968 - Present
HPI: 45.21
Rank: 3
1948 - Present
HPI: 44.59
Rank: 4
1965 - Present
HPI: 42.95
Rank: 5
1963 - Present
HPI: 42.55
Rank: 6
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.54
Rank: 7
1970 - Present
HPI: 39.59
Rank: 8
1964 - Present
HPI: 37.40
Rank: 9
1970 - Present
HPI: 33.38
Rank: 10
1975 - Present
HPI: 31.59
Rank: 11
1976 - Present
HPI: 30.42
Rank: 12