Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen and journalist in space, dies at 84
Toyohiro Akiyama, a pioneering Japanese journalist and the first Japanese citizen to travel to space, has died at age 84. During his historic spaceflight, Akiyama made unique observations about how different organisms adapted to weightlessness, notably reporting that only certain types of Japanese tree frogs thrived in the zero-gravity environment.
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Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen and journalist in space, dies at 84
Toyohiro Akiyama, a pioneering Japanese journalist and the first Japanese citizen to travel to space, has died at age 84. During his historic spaceflight, Akiyama made unique observations about how different organisms adapted to weightlessness, notably reporting that only certain types of Japanese tree frogs thrived in the zero-gravity environment.
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