Soichi Noguchi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Soichi Noguchi

Japanese astronaut

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1965

Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Profession: astronaut, engineer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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Soichi Noguchi (?? ??, Noguchi Soichi, born 15 April 1965 in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese aeronautical engineer and JAXA astronaut.
His first spaceflight was as a Mission Specialist aboard STS-114 on 26 July 2005 for NASA's first "return to flight" Space Shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster.
He was most recently in space as part of the Soyuz TMA-17 crew and Expedition 22 to the International Space Station (ISS), returning to Earth on 2 June 2010.
He is the fifth Japanese astronaut to fly in space and the fourth to fly on the space shuttle.