# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ellison-onizuka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:30:04.237Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ellison-onizuka"
name: "Ellison Onizuka"
slug: "ellison-onizuka"
description: "Ellison Shoji Onizuka  was an American astronaut, engineer, and U.S. Air Force flight test engineer from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C. He died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, on which he was serving as Mission Specialist for mission STS-51-L. Onizuka was the first Asian American and the first person of Japanese ancestry to reach space."
tagline: "American astronaut from Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, first Asian American to reach space, later died in the Space Shuttle Challenger accident"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ellison_Shoji_Onizuka_(NASA).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946-06-24"
deathDate: "1986-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump