Kikuchi, Ryoko
Person · Japan
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Japanese journalist cosmonaut, 1989-1990. Graduated from the University of Tokyo in Chinese language Journalist, Tokyo Broadcasting Corporation. Reporter for world news with TBS, reporting from Moscow and then again from Tokyo.
More at: Kikuchi.
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- Family
- Cosmonaut
- Country
- Japan
- Spacecraft
- Mir
- Flights
- Soyuz TM-11 Kosmoreporter
- Agency
- Tokyo Broadcasting
- Bibliography
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Chronology
3 events
1964 September 15
- Birth of Ryoko Kikuchi - . Nation: Japan. Related Persons: Kikuchi. Japanese journalist cosmonaut, 1989-1990. Graduated from the University of Tokyo in Chinese language Journalist, Tokyo Broadcasting Corporation. Reporter for world news with TBS, reporting from Moscow and then again from Tokyo..
1989 August 17
- Japanese Commercial Cosmonaut Training Group selected. - . Nation: Japan. Related Persons: Akiyama, Kikuchi. Japanese journalists trained for a commercial flight to the Mir space station..
1990 December 2
08:13 GMT - . Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Complex: Baikonur LC1. LV Family: R-7. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-U2.- Soyuz TM-11 - .
Call Sign: Derbent (Derbent - Russian city). Crew: Afanasyev,
Akiyama,
Manarov.
Backup Crew: Artsebarsky,
Kikuchi,
Krikalyov.
Payload: Soyuz TM s/n 61. Mass: 7,150 kg (15,760 lb). Nation: Russia.
Agency: MOM.
Program: Mir.
Class: Manned.
Type: Manned spacecraft. Flight: Soyuz TM-10,
Soyuz TM-11,
Soyuz TM-11 Kosmoreporter.
Spacecraft Bus: Soyuz.
Spacecraft: Soyuz TM.
Duration: 175.08 days. Decay Date: 1991-05-26 . USAF Sat Cat: 20981 . COSPAR: 1990-107A. Apogee: 400 km (240 mi). Perigee: 367 km (228 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 92.20 min.
Docked with Mir. Mir Expedition EO-08. Transported to the Mir manned orbital station the international crew consisting of the cosmonauts V M Afanasyev, M Kh Manarov, and T Akiyami (Japan) for the purpose of carrying out joint work with the cosmonauts G M Manakov and G M Strekalov. Launched jointly with the private Japanese company TBS. The Japanese television network ended up paying $ 28 million for the first commercial flight to Mir to put Akiyama, the first journalist in space aboard Soyuz TM-11. Akiyama made daily television broadcasts.