Kimiya Yui

Japanese - (JAXA)

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Date of Birth: Jan. 30, 1970
Age: 56

Kimiya Yui is a Japanese astronaut from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). He was selected for the agency in 2009.

Spaceflight Record

Kimiya Yui flew on two previous launch(es).

Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-17M

Progress Rocket Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
July 22, 2015, 9:02 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

Soyuz TMA-17M launch to the International Space Station with 3 crew for Expedition 44. The crew consists of cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui and NASA astronaut Kjell Norwood Lindgren

Low Earth Orbit

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-11

SpaceX | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Aug. 1, 2025, 3:43 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

SpaceX Crew-11 is the eleventh crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Low Earth Orbit B1094 - Flight Proven ( ) Landing Zone 1

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Administrator: Hiroshi Yamakawa

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan's national aero-space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and the launch of satellites into orbit, and is involved in many more advanced missions, such as asteroid exploration and possible manned exploration of the Moon. JAXA launch their Epsilon vehicle from the Uchinoura Space Center and their H-II vehicles from the Tanegashima Space Center.

Recent Launches

Falcon 9

Success

3 days, 14 hours ago

Starlink Group 17-51

Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Starship

Success

4 days, 7 hours ago

Flight 13

Orbital Launch Pad 2 - SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA

13th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Second flight of Starship V3. For the first time, Starship will carry 20 V3 Starlink sa…

Kinetica 1

Success

5 days, 6 hours ago

5 satellites

Launch Area 130 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Share-ride of 5 commercial Earth observation and technology demonstration satellites to SSO, including SpaceTY's TY-48. Details TBD.

Long March 3B/E

Success

5 days, 18 hours ago

Tianlian 2-06

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Tianlian is a Chinese data tracking and relay communications geostationary satellite series. The TL 2 (Tian Lian 2) satellites represent the second g…

Gravity-1

Success

1 week ago

9 satellites

Yellow Sea (launch location 5) - Haiyang Oriental Spaceport

Carried 9 satellites on a share-ride to sun-synchronous orbit. Details TBD.