Toyohiro Akiyama

Toyohiro Akiyama


Nationality Japanese

Date Of Birth 1942-06-22

Status Retired

Type Non-Astronaut Passenger


Astronaut Biography

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.

Toyohiro Akiyama's Launches

Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-11

Soviet Space Program
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
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