ASTRONAUT

Chiaki Mukai

1952 - Today

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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 198,358 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Chiaki Mukai is the 155th most popular astronaut (down from 152nd in 2019), the 1,145th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,140th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Astronaut.

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  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Chiaki Mukai ranks 155 out of 556. Before her are Edward Gibson, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Peggy Whitson, Vladimir Kovalyonok, Thomas Reiter, and William Shepherd. After her are Franklin Chang Díaz, Ronald McNair, Eileen Collins, Anatoly Artsebarsky, Valentin Lebedev, and Owen Garriott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Chiaki Mukai ranks 309. Before her are Jorge Fossati, Guzal Sitdikova, Ali Abdullah Ayyoub, Rui Jordão, William Boyd, and Amina Wadud. After her are Rick Aviles, Michel Blanc, Michael Dorn, Christiane Taubira, Bogusław Linda, and Anton Lesser.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Chiaki Mukai ranks 1,145 out of 6,245. Before her are Akira Emoto (1948), Toshiko Yuasa (1909), Yumi Matsutoya (1954), Isao Kimura (1923), Toru Iwatani (1955), and Kanno Sugako (1881). After her are Shusaku Hirasawa (1949), Kappei Yamaguchi (1965), Mitsuo Kato (1953), Kuniya Daini (1944), Hiroshi Abe (1964), and Hisao Sekiguchi (1954).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Japan

Among astronauts born in Japan, Chiaki Mukai ranks 2. Before her are Toyohiro Akiyama (1942). After her are Satoshi Furukawa (1964), Mamoru Mohri (1948), Koichi Wakata (1963), Takao Doi (1954), Soichi Noguchi (1965), Akihiko Hoshide (1968), Naoko Yamazaki (1970), Kimiya Yui (1970), Takuya Onishi (1975), and Norishige Kanai (1976).

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