Satoshi Furukawa

Satoshi Furukawa is a Japanese surgeon and retired JAXA astronaut, born on 4 April 1964. He was assigned to the International Space Station as a flight engineer on two long-duration missions: Expedition 28 and Expedition 29 in 2011, on Soyuz TMA-02M, and Expedition 69 and Expedition 70 in 2023 and 2024, on SpaceX Crew-7. Wikidata records 366 days and 8 hours in space across the two flights. On Crew-7 he flew with Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen and Konstantin Borisov. JAXA is one of the five agencies that run the station.

Born: 4 April 1964
Country: Japan
Flights: 2: Soyuz TMA-02M (2011), SpaceX Crew-7 (2023)
Time in space: 366 days 8 hours
Stations visited: International Space Station, as part of Expedition 29, Expedition 28, Expedition 69, Expedition 70
Flights with a company: SpaceX Crew-7 (SpaceX)

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0). All people who have flown in space.

Events

26 August 2023

Crew-7
- Crew Dragon, Falcon 9
- Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa, Konstantin Borisov
Four seats, four agencies. The webcast said Crew-7 was the first Dragon flight in which every seat was filled by an astronaut from a different partner agency: NASA, ESA, JAXA and Roscosmos.
2 videos
- SpaceX