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Personal: Female, married. Born in Zama City, Kanagawa, Japan. Civilian Graduated from the University of Tokyo in Chinese language Journalist, Tokyo Broadcasting Corporation. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Japanese Commercial Group - 1989. Inactive Entered space service: 17 August 1989. Left space service: 10 December 1990. Reporter for world news with TBS, reporting from Moscow and then again from Tokyo. Bicycling, skiing, basketball, swimming, mountaineering.
Kikuchi Chronology 17 August 1989 - Japanese Commercial Cosmonaut Training Group selected.. Japanese journalists trained for a commercial flight to the Mir space station. 2 December 1990 - Soyuz TM-11. Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight: Mir EO-8, Mir Kosmoreporter, Mir EO-7. 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. Bibliography and Further Reading
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