Space · astronaut
Soichi Noguchi
JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
JAPANESE
RETIRED
Career
Time in space
344 d 9 h
Spacewalks
4
27 h 1 m outside
Flights
3
3 landings
Status
Retired
Nationality
JapaneseBorn
15 Apr 1965First flight
26 Jul 2005Most recent flight
16 Nov 2020Type
GovernmentLinks
WikipediaBiography
Soichi Noguchi (野口 聡一 Noguchi Sōichi, born 15 April 1965 in Yokohama, Japan) 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 most recently 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. He is the fifth Japanese astronaut to fly in space and the fourth to fly on the space shuttle.
Flight log
Flights
| No. | Flight | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 03 | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-1 | 16 Nov 2020 |
| 02 | Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-17 | 20 Dec 2009 |
| 01 | Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-114 | 26 Jul 2005 |
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Source The Space Devs — Launch Library 2
Last checked 29 Sept 2026