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Takao Doi

1954 - Today

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Takao Doi (土井 隆雄, Doi Takao, born September 18, 1954) is a Japanese astronaut, engineer and veteran of two NASA Space Shuttle missions. 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 researched at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science and was selected by NASDA as an astronaut candidate in 1985 for the Japanese crewed space program while also conducting research in the United States at NASA's Lewis Research Center and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Takao Doi has received more than 95,776 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Takao Doi is the 235th most popular astronaut (down from 204th in 2019), the 1,410th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,207th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Astronaut.

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  • 96k

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  • 42.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Takao Doi ranks 235 out of 524. Before him are Thomas Pesquet, Marcos Pontes, Bryan D. O'Connor, Norman Thagard, Valery Korzun, and Koichi Wakata. After him are Jeffrey Williams, Oleg Kononenko, Yury Onufriyenko, Robert L. Stewart, Gennadi Manakov, and Ivan Bella.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Takao Doi ranks 433. Before him are Ronald Brautigam, Masaaki Suzuki, Théophile Abega, James Morrison, Amaral, and Janusz Wojciechowski. After him are Magnus Uggla, Sergejus Jovaiša, Kiki Smith, Bruce Hornsby, Luc-Adolphe Tiao, and Gerónimo Barbadillo.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Takao Doi ranks 1,410 out of 6,048. Before him are Hiromi Hara (1958), Tetsuo Hamuro (1917), Hiro Matsushita (1961), Keiko Matsui (1961), Momoko Sakura (1965), and Koichi Wakata (1963). After him are Atsuhiro Miura (1974), Masaaki Kato (1958), Masaji Kiyokawa (1913), Musashi Mizushima (1964), Jun Matsumoto (1983), and Kiyohiko Azuma (1968).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Japan

Among astronauts born in Japan, Takao Doi ranks 7. Before him are Toyohiro Akiyama (1942), Chiaki Mukai (1952), Akihiko Hoshide (1968), Mamoru Mohri (1948), Soichi Noguchi (1965), and Koichi Wakata (1963). After him are Naoko Yamazaki (1970), Satoshi Furukawa (1964), Kimiya Yui (1970), Takuya Onishi (1975), and Norishige Kanai (1976).

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