Toyohiro Akiyama was a Japanese television journalist who became the first Japanese citizen to fly in space, launching aboard a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in December 1990 to the Mir space station as part of a commercial arrangement with his employer, the Tokyo Broadcasting System. He filed daily television reports from orbit during his roughly week-long stay, making him one of the earliest examples of a journalist reporting live from space rather than a professional astronaut or scientist.
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Notable Mission Classification
Astronaut RoleSpaceflight Participant 1 In the Other Atlases
Nationality
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1. Toyohiro Akiyama (Wikipedia)
his space mission was the second spaceflight to be commercially sponsored and funded...first civilian to fly aboard a commercial space flightView the Source 2. Wikipedia: Toyohiro Akiyama
Infobox, birth_date
1942-07-22
Lead, sentence 1
22 July 1942
Wikidata, P27 country of citizenship
Japan
Spaceflight, paragraph 3
Soyuz TM-11 mission to the Mir space station
In Group: Space Tourists and Private Astronauts, Article text: program or flight
He became the first person of Japanese nationality to fly in space, and his space mission was the second spaceflight to be commercially sponsored and funded.
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