Akihiko hoshide biography samples
Commander Akihiko Hoshide inserts cell samples into the Kibo laboratory module's Cell Biology Experiment Facility.
Expedition 65 Commander Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) collects microbe samples from the Veggie botany research facility.!
Akihiko Hoshide (M.S. ’97)
UH Alum Akihiko Hoshide onboard SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft
Four astronauts, including UH alum Akihiko Hoshide, took their first steps of a six-month stay in space as they launched on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Akihiko Hoshide is an astronaut with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Keio University in 1992 and a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Houston, Cullen College of Engineering in 1997.
He joined the National Space Development Agency of Japan in 1992.
The agency is now the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. He helped develop the H-II rocket and was an astronaut support engineer, helping to develop the astronaut training program.
He was selected in February 1999 as one of three Japanese astronauts slated to go to the ISS, starting training in April 1999 and being certified in January 2001.
He served as a mission specialist in 2006 for