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Takao Doi is a
Japanese astronaut and a veteran of one
NASA
space shuttle mission.
Doi holds a doctorate from the
University of Tokyo in aerospace engineering, and has studied and
published in the fields of propulsion systems, and microgravity
technology. He worked for the
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science and on the Japanese
manned space program while also conducting research in the
United States at NASA's
Lewis Research Center and the
University of Colorado. Doi was selected by NASA as an astronaut
candidate in
1985 and flew as a mission specialist aboard
STS-87 in
1997, during which he became the first Japanese astronaut to conduct a
spacewalk.
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