First name and last name | Toyohiro Akiyama |
Date of birth | 22.06.1942 |
Nationality | JPN |
Status | Retired |
Type of astronaut | Non-astronaut passenger |
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyohiro_Akiyama |
Soyuz TM-11
Toyohiro Akiyama (born July 22, 1942) is a Japanese TV journalist best known for his flight to the Mir space station aboard a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in 1990. Akiyama is the first person of Japanese nationality to have flown in space.