ASTRONAUT

Soichi Noguchi

1965 - Today

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Soichi Noguchi (野口 聡一, Noguchi Sōichi, born 15 April 1965) is a Japanese aeronautical engineer and former JAXA astronaut. His first spaceflight was as a mission specialist aboard STS-114 on 26 July 2005 for NASA's first "return to flight" Space Shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster. He was also in space as part of the Soyuz TMA-17 crew and Expedition 22 to the International Space Station (ISS), returning to Earth on 2 June 2010. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Soichi Noguchi has received more than 398,657 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Soichi Noguchi is the 239th most popular astronaut (down from 227th in 2019), the 1,512th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,380th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Soichi Noguchi ranks 239 out of 556. Before him are Loren Acton, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, John Oliver Creighton, Nikolai Budarin, Jean-Pierre Haigneré, and Jean-Jacques Favier. After him are Akihiko Hoshide, Bjarni Tryggvason, Chris Hadfield, Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin, Millie Hughes-Fulford, and Samuel T. Durrance.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Soichi Noguchi ranks 342. Before him are Richard Grieco, Valdir Benedito, Gwen Torrence, Tshering Tobgay, Marc Degryse, and Nitzan Horowitz. After him are Gilles Panizzi, Miguel Pardeza, Yuji Naka, Guy Forget, Stefan Schwarzmann, and Sergio Vázquez.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Soichi Noguchi ranks 1,512 out of 6,245. Before him are Masaaki Kato (1958), Takeshi Kawaharazuka (1975), Gen Urobuchi (1972), Shohei Ohtani (1994), Kiyohiko Azuma (1968), and Masako Yoshida (1957). After him are Kamui Kobayashi (1986), Hiroki Sakai (1990), Akihiko Hoshide (1968), Tomoko Ohara (1957), Hiro Matsushita (1961), and Kim Eui-tae (1941).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Japan

Among astronauts born in Japan, Soichi Noguchi ranks 7. Before him are Toyohiro Akiyama (1942), Chiaki Mukai (1952), Satoshi Furukawa (1964), Mamoru Mohri (1948), Koichi Wakata (1963), and Takao Doi (1954). After him are Akihiko Hoshide (1968), Naoko Yamazaki (1970), Kimiya Yui (1970), Takuya Onishi (1975), and Norishige Kanai (1976).

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