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Mamoru Mohri
Mohri in 2000
Born	(1948-01-29) 29 January 1948 (age 76) Yoichi, Hokkaidō, Japan
Status	Retired
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Engineer
Space career
NASDA astronaut
Time in space	19d 04h 09m
Selection	1985 NASDA Group
Missions	STS-47, STS-99
Mission insignia
Scientific career
Fields	Materials science
Thesis	Physical adsorption on metals. (1976)

Mamoru "Mark" Mohri, AM (Japanese: 毛利 衛, romanized: Mōri Mamoru; born 29 January 1948) is a Japanese scientist, a former NASDA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA Space Shuttle missions. He is the first Japanese astronaut who was part of an official Japanese space program. The first Japanese person in space, Toyohiro Akiyama, was a journalist who was trained in the Soviet Union.

Biography

Born in Yoichi, Hokkaidō, Japan, Mohri earned both a BSc and MSc degree in chemistry from Hokkaido University in respectively 1970 and 1972, and a PhD degree in chemistry from Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1976.

Most of Mohri's work has been in the field of materials and vacuum sciences. From 1975 to 1985, Mohri was a member of the nuclear engineering faculty of Hokkaido University, where he worked on nuclear fusion-related projects.

Astronaut career

Mohri was selected by the National Space Development Agency of Japan (now JAXA) to train as a payload specialist for a Japanese materials science payload. He flew his first space mission aboard STS-47 in 1992 as chief payload specialist for Spacelab-J. Mohri subsequently made another trip into space as part of mission STS-99 in 2000.

As of 2001, Mohri is the Chief Executive Director Emeritus for the Miraikan, the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo.

Honours

On 16 March 2006 Mohri was appointed an Honorary Member of the Order of Australia (AM), “for service to Australia-Japan education and science relations.”

External links

• "MOHRI Mamoru biography". JAXA. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
• Spacefacts biography of Mamoru Mohri

References

1. The Earth "MAHOROBA" - Astronaut Mohri's STS-99 Earth Observation Mission - website of JAXA
2. It's an Honour Archived 22 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Itsanhonour.gov.au (2006-03-16). Retrieved on 2011-06-24.

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Pilots	Duane G. Carey Stephen Frick Charles O. Hobaugh James M. Kelly Mark Kelly Scott Kelly Paul Lockhart Christopher Loria William C. McCool Mark L. Polansky
Mission specialists	David M. Brown Daniel C. Burbank Yvonne D. Cagle Fernando Caldeiro Charles J. Camarda Laurel B. Clark E. Michael Fincke Patrick G. Forrester John B. Herrington Joan E. Higginbotham Sandra H. Magnus Michael J. Massimino Richard A. Mastracchio Lee M. E. Morin Lisa M. Nowak Donald R. Pettit John L. Phillips Paul W. Richards Piers J. Sellers Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper Daniel M. Tani Rex J. Walheim Peggy A. Whitson Jeffrey N. Williams Stephanie D. Wilson
International mission specialists	Pedro Duque (Spain) Christer Fuglesang (Sweden) Umberto Guidoni (Italy) Steven MacLean (Canada) Mamoru Mohri (Japan) Soichi Noguchi (Japan) Julie Payette (Canada) Philippe Perrin (France) Gerhard Thiele (Germany)
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• 1948 births
• Living people
• Flinders University alumni
• Hokkaido University alumni
• Japanese astronauts
• People from Yoichi, Hokkaido
• Honorary members of the Order of Australia
• Academic staff of Hokkaido University
• Academic staff of Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Space Shuttle program astronauts