May 5, 2006

Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
(202) 358-3749

Doug Peterson
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(281) 483-5111

RELEASE: 06-216

NASA NAMES DOI TO SHUTTLE CREW TO LAUNCH JAPANESE MODULE

NASA; Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology; and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have named
Japanese astronaut Takao Doi to the space shuttle crew that will
deliver the first module of the Japanese laboratory, Kibo, to the
International Space Station.

Doi is the first crew member named to the mission, which will be the
eighth of the upcoming space shuttle missions to the space station.
Doi's duties will involve attachment and initial set-up of the Kibo
Japanese Experiment Logistics Module. Doi's crew mates will be named
at a later date.

The mission will be Doi's second space flight. During his first
flight, shuttle mission STS-87 in 1997, he performed two spacewalks.

Doi holds a bachelor's degree, master's degree and a doctorate in
aerospace engineering from the University of Tokyo. He also has a
doctorate in astronomy from Rice University, Houston.

For complete biographies of Doi, NASA and International Space Station
partner astronauts, visit:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/home


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