Takao Doi

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Takao Doi
1985 NASDA Group
Total EVAs
2
Total EVA time
12 hours, 43 minutes[1]
MissionsSTS-87, STS-123
Mission insignia
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
ThesisInternal velocities in the Orion Nebula (2004)

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 Colorado at Boulder. Doi flew as a mission specialist aboard STS-87
in 1997, during which he became the first Japanese astronaut to conduct a spacewalk.

He received a Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Tokyo, and also a PhD in Astronomy from Rice University in 2004.

Takao Doi visited the

Kibō, and the Canadian Dextre robot to the space station. During this mission, he became the first person to throw a boomerang in space that had been specifically designed for use in microgravity during spaceflight.[2]

In September 2009, Doi retired from astronaut duty and started working as the chief of Space Applications Section of United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs.[3]

In April 2016, he became a professor at the Unit of Synergetic Studies for Space of Kyoto University[4] and then at the Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (GSAIS) in April 2020.[5]

As an avid amateur astronomer, he discovered supernovae SN 2002gw and SN 2007aa.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ "Takao Doi (Ph.D.) JAXA Astronaut (Former) Biography on the NASA website". NASA. Archived from the original on April 6, 2012. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  2. ^ "Boomerangs in Space". Retrieved 2011-01-19.
  3. ^ "Veteran Japanese astronaut Takao Doi to take up UN job". The Mainichi Daily News. June 6, 2009. Archived from the original on June 8, 2009. Retrieved June 8, 2009. (found in archive.org capture)
  4. ^ 宇宙飛行士の土井隆雄さん、京大特定教授に. Yomiuri Online (in Japanese). The Yomiuri Shimbun. March 7, 2016. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
  5. ^ 京都大学ELP 有人宇宙活動 (in Japanese). Kyoto University. 3 April 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  6. ^ "IAUC 7995". 2002-10-17. Archived from the original on 2013-10-21. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
  7. ^ "Supernova 2007aa in NGC 4030". Retrieved 2014-03-27.

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