Mamoru Mohri

Mamoru Mohri
Mohri in 2000
Born (1948-01-29) 29 January 1948 (age 76)
StatusRetired
NationalityJapanese
OccupationEngineer
Space career
NASDA astronaut
Time in space
19d 04h 09m
Selection1985 NASDA Group
MissionsSTS-47, STS-99
Mission insignia
Scientific career
FieldsMaterials science
ThesisPhysical adsorption on metals. (1976)

Mamoru "Mark" Mohri, AM (Japanese: 毛利 衛, romanizedMōri Mamoru; born 29 January 1948) is a Japanese scientist, a former NASDA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA Space 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.