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This introduction is a brief review of the history of Japanese human spaceflight prior to the construction of the International Space Station (ISS).
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Ellison Onizuka, born in Hawaii, USA, flew on the NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-51C on 24 January 1985. He was the first person of Japanese descent to fly into space. He died on his second mission when the Challenger broke apart after launch on 28 January 1986.
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Japan Times interview 3 August 2013.
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See Chapter 3 for the biography of Koichi Wakata and details of his STS-92 mission to the ISS. See Chapter 7 for details of his STS-119 mission to the ISS. See Chapter 12 for details of his Soyuz TMA-11M mission to the ISS.
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See Chapter 5 for the biography of Takao Doi and details of his STS-123 mission to the ISS.
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O’Sullivan, J. (2019). Before ISS. In: Japanese Missions to the International Space Station. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04534-0_1
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