# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chiaki-mukai
# Generated: 2026-09-01T18:49:36.751Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chiaki-mukai"
name: "Chiaki Mukai"
slug: "chiaki-mukai"
description: "Chiaki Mukai  is a Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights, and the first Asian woman in space. Both were Space Shuttle missions; her first was STS-65 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1994, which was a Spacelab mission. Her second spaceflight was STS-95 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998. In total she has spent 23 days in space."
tagline: "Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chiaki_Mukai.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952-05-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.28
  momentum:             20.61492313460818
  historical:           23.03317733333333
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 118
sources:
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    title: "Chiaki Mukai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "شياكي موكاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شياكى موكاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chiaki Mukai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chiaki Mukai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Чиаки Мукаи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaki_Mukai"
    title: "Chiaki Mukai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Ciaki_Mukaiov%C3%A1"
    title: "Čiaki Mukaiová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaki_Mukai"
    title: "Chiaki Mukai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%BA%CE%B9_%CE%9C%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BA%CE%AC%CE%B9"
    title: "Τσιάκι Μουκάι"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chiaki Mukai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chiaki Mukai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaki_Mukai"
    title: "Chiaki Mukai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaki_Mukai"
    title: "Chiaki Mukai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "צ'יאקי מוקיי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%88"
    title: "चिआकी मुकाई"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chiaki Naito-Mukai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Չիակի Մուկաի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaki_Mukai"
    title: "Chiaki Mukai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaki_Mukai"
    title: "Chiaki Mukai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%91%E4%BA%95%E5%8D%83%E7%A7%8B"
    title: "向井千秋"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaki_Mukai"
    title: "Chiaki Mukai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaki_Mukai"
    title: "Chiaki Mukai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bjn.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chiaki_Mukai"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chiaki_Mukai"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://gor.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chiaki_Mukai"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234306"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump