1954 - Today
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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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.
1978 - Present
HPI: 42.93
Rank: 229
1963 - Present
HPI: 42.90
Rank: 230
1946 - Present
HPI: 42.76
Rank: 231
1943 - Present
HPI: 42.69
Rank: 232
1953 - Present
HPI: 42.68
Rank: 233
1963 - Present
HPI: 42.55
Rank: 234
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.54
Rank: 235
1958 - Present
HPI: 42.53
Rank: 236
1964 - Present
HPI: 42.53
Rank: 237
1961 - Present
HPI: 42.52
Rank: 238
1942 - Present
HPI: 42.45
Rank: 239
1950 - 2019
HPI: 42.44
Rank: 240
1964 - Present
HPI: 42.36
Rank: 241
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.
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.78
Rank: 427
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.75
Rank: 428
1954 - 2012
HPI: 42.73
Rank: 429
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.62
Rank: 430
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.62
Rank: 431
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.57
Rank: 432
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.54
Rank: 433
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.50
Rank: 434
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.43
Rank: 435
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.36
Rank: 436
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.34
Rank: 437
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.34
Rank: 438
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.30
Rank: 439
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).
1958 - Present
HPI: 42.61
Rank: 1,404
1917 - 2005
HPI: 42.61
Rank: 1,405
1961 - Present
HPI: 42.59
Rank: 1,406
1961 - Present
HPI: 42.58
Rank: 1,407
1965 - 2018
HPI: 42.58
Rank: 1,408
1963 - Present
HPI: 42.55
Rank: 1,409
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.54
Rank: 1,410
1974 - Present
HPI: 42.54
Rank: 1,411
1958 - Present
HPI: 42.53
Rank: 1,412
1913 - 1999
HPI: 42.53
Rank: 1,413
1964 - Present
HPI: 42.52
Rank: 1,414
1983 - Present
HPI: 42.49
Rank: 1,415
1968 - Present
HPI: 42.49
Rank: 1,416
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).
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