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Koichi Wakata

1963 - Today

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Koichi Wakata (若田 光一, Wakata Kōichi, born 1 August 1963) is a Japanese engineer and an astronaut working for Axiom Space. He retired from JAXA in 2024. Wakata is a veteran of four NASA Space Shuttle missions, a Russian Soyuz mission, and a long-duration stay on the International Space Station. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Koichi Wakata has received more than 244,366 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Koichi Wakata is the 234th most popular astronaut (up from 235th in 2019), the 1,409th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,303rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Astronaut.

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  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Koichi Wakata ranks 234 out of 524. Before him are Lisa Nowak, Thomas Pesquet, Marcos Pontes, Bryan D. O'Connor, Norman Thagard, and Valery Korzun. After him are Takao Doi, Jeffrey Williams, Oleg Kononenko, Yury Onufriyenko, Robert L. Stewart, and Gennadi Manakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Koichi Wakata ranks 382. Before him are Jarvis Cocker, Rand Paul, Pia Cramling, Anne Consigny, Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg, and Gavin Hood. After him are Aubrey de Grey, Johan Theorin, Candan Erçetin, Malcolm Gladwell, Jozefina Topalli, and Michael Chabon.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Koichi Wakata ranks 1,409 out of 6,048. Before him are Hiroyuki Usui (1953), Hiromi Hara (1958), Tetsuo Hamuro (1917), Hiro Matsushita (1961), Keiko Matsui (1961), and Momoko Sakura (1965). After him are Takao Doi (1954), Atsuhiro Miura (1974), Masaaki Kato (1958), Masaji Kiyokawa (1913), Musashi Mizushima (1964), and Jun Matsumoto (1983).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Japan

Among astronauts born in Japan, Koichi Wakata ranks 6. Before him are Toyohiro Akiyama (1942), Chiaki Mukai (1952), Akihiko Hoshide (1968), Mamoru Mohri (1948), and Soichi Noguchi (1965). After him are Takao Doi (1954), Naoko Yamazaki (1970), Satoshi Furukawa (1964), Kimiya Yui (1970), Takuya Onishi (1975), and Norishige Kanai (1976).

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