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Mamoru Mohri
Mohri in 2000
Born	(1948-01-29)29 January 1948 (age 77) Yoichi, Hokkaidō, Japan
Status	Retired
Occupation	Engineer
Space career
NASDA astronaut
Time in space	19d 04h 09m
Selection	1985 NASDA Group
Missions	STS-47,STS-99
Mission insignia
Scientific career
Fields	Materials science
Thesis	Physical adsorption on metals. (1976)

Mamoru "Mark" Mohri,AM (Japanese:毛利 衛,romanized: Mōri Mamoru; born 29 January 1948) is a Japanese scientist, a formerNASDA astronaut, and a veteran of twoNASASpace Shuttle missions. He is the first Japanese astronaut who was part of an official Japanese space program. The first Japanese person in space,Toyohiro Akiyama, was a journalist who was trained in the Soviet Union.

Born inYoichi, Hokkaidō, Japan, Mohri earned both aBSc andMSc degree in chemistry fromHokkaido University in respectively 1970 and 1972, and aPhD degree in chemistry fromFlinders University inAdelaide,South Australia, in 1976.^[1]

Most of Mohri's work has been in the field ofmaterials andvacuumsciences. From 1975 to 1985, Mohri was a member of thenuclear engineeringfaculty of Hokkaido University, where he worked onnuclear fusion-related projects.

Mohri was selected by theNational Space Development Agency of Japan (nowJAXA) to train as apayload specialist for a Japanese materials science payload. He flew his first space mission aboardSTS-47 in 1992 as chief payload specialist forSpacelab-J. Mohri subsequently made another trip into space as part of missionSTS-99 in 2000.

As of 2001, Mohri is the Chief Executive Director Emeritus for theMiraikan, theNational Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo.

On 16 March 2006 Mohri was appointed an Honorary Member of theOrder of Australia (AM), “for service to Australia-Japan education and science relations.”^[2]

• "MOHRI Mamoru biography". JAXA. Retrieved25 July 2021.
• Spacefacts biography of Mamoru Mohri

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