Chiaki Mukai
Japanese physician
Chiaki Mukai 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... Wikipedia
Born: 1952 (age 71 years), Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan
Space missions: STS-95 and STS-65
Education: Keio University and Keio Girls' Senior High School
First space flight: STS-65
Nationality: Japanese
Spouse: Makio Mukai (m. 1986)