Mamoru Mohri

Mamoru “Mark” Mohri (毛利 衛, Mōri Mamoru, born 29 January 1948), AM is a Japanese scientist, a former NASDA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions.

Mamoru Mohri
Born (1948-01-29) 29 January 1948
Yoichi, Hokkaidō, Japan
StatusRetired
NationalityJapanese
OccupationEngineer
Space career
NASDA Astronaut
Time in space
19d 04h 09m
Selection1985 NASDA Group
MissionsSTS-47, STS-99
Mission insignia

Biography

Born in Yoichi, Hokkaidō, Japan, Mohri earned degrees in chemistry from Hokkaido University and a Doctorate from Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1976.

Most of Mohri's work has been in the field of materials and vacuum sciences. From 1975 to 1985, Mohri was a member of the nuclear engineering faculty of Hokkaido University, where he worked on nuclear fusion-related projects.

Mohri was selected by the National Space Development Agency of Japan (now JAXA) to train as a payload specialist for a Japanese materials science payload. He flew his first space mission aboard STS-47 in 1992 as chief payload specialist for Spacelab-J. Mohri subsequently made another trip into space as part of mission STS-99 in 2000.

As of 2007, Mohri is the Executive Director for the Miraikan, the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo.

Honours

On 16 March 2006 Mohri was appointed an Honorary Member of the Order of Australia (AM), “for service to Australia-Japan education and science relations.”[1]

gollark: I vaguely read somewhere that nuclear winter was somewhat discredited as an idea.
gollark: Not that overpopulation actually is much of an issue.
gollark: *Technically*, that's not wrong.
gollark: Climate change will cause mass migration and sea level rising and things eventually. Those are bad.
gollark: Apparently in a few billion years various feedback loops and an increasingly warm sun will cause the oceans to boil, and a few billion after that the Sun will swell into a red giant and destroy anything remaining.

References
  1. It's an Honour. Itsanhonour.gov.au (2006-03-16). Retrieved on 2011-06-24.


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