Kikuchi

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Kikuchi

Ryoko Kikuchi Status: Inactive. Trained as: Cosmonaut. Profession: Journalist. Sex: Female. Marital Status: Single. Birth Date: 15 September 1964. Birth City: Zama City. Birth State: Kanagawa. Birth Country: Japan. Nationality: Japanese. Affiliation: Japanese journalist. Group: 1989 Commercial Group. Date Selected: 17 August 1989. Departed: 1991. Number of Flights: 0. Comments: Commercial Japanese journalist flight.

Flight Log

Soyuz TM-11 - - 1990 Dec 2 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz TM-11.
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.

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