Mukai Chiaki, Astronaut
Mukai Chiaki, Japan's first woman astronaut. Admitted in the Japanese space program in 1985, she first travelled in space in 1994 and again in 1998. From: Blazing a Path: Japanese Women's Contributions to Modern Science. Japan: Committee for the Encouragement of Future Scientists, 2001.
Image from: NASA, Astronaut Biographies, Payload Specialists. "Chiaki Mukai." http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/ Bios/PS/mukai.html
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