Satoshi Furukawa

• Soyuz TMA- 02M (2011)   ISS Expedition 28
• ISS Expedition 29

Satoshi Furukawa (古 川 聡Japanese, Satoshi Furukawa, born April 4, 1964 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese astronaut.

Life

Furukawa graduated in 1983, the Eiko high school in Kamakura. He then studied medicine at the University of Tokyo and received his PhD in 1989. In 2000, he also received his PhD in scientific medicine at the same university.

Furukawa is married and has two children.

Spaceman activity

He was with two other candidates selected as a Japanese astronaut to visit the ISS in 1999. Since April 2001 he is in the special training for space flight to the ISS, is reinforced training on the equipment and the experiments of the Japanese Kibo module. In May 2004, he completed his training in Russia for the spacecraft Soyuz TMA the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. From June 2004 to February 2006, he received the Johnson Space Center training for the Space Shuttle and the ISS, so that it can be used as a mission specialist. In August 2007 he was a member of the crew of the NEEMO - 13 mission, an undersea research habitat for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA) off the coast of Florida, where he worked for ten days.

In October 2009, Furukawa was nominated for an extended stay aboard the ISS. He served as a flight engineer of expeditions 28 and 29 June-November 2011, aboard the ISS.