Norishige Kanai is a Japanese doctor and JAXA astronaut.
12 Facts About Norishige Kanai
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Norishige Kanai is a lieutenant and Diving Medical Officer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
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Norishige Kanai enjoys Iaido and other Japanese traditional martial arts, scuba diving, and traveling.
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Norishige Kanai is a member of the Japan Surgical Society and the Japanese Society of Hyperbaric and Undersea Medicine.
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Norishige Kanai was commissioned from the National Defense Medical College in 2002.
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Norishige Kanai completed the Diving Medicine Course and qualified as a Diving Medical Officer in 2004.
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Norishige Kanai was transferred to Japan Self Defense Force Hospital Kure, Hiroshima, Japan, in 2008.
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Norishige Kanai worked at the JMSDF 1st Service School from June to September 2009.
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Norishige Kanai was certified as an ISS astronaut in July 2011.
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In 2011, Norishige Kanai served as cavenaut into the ESA CAVES training in Sardinia, alongside Thomas Pesquet, Tim Peake, Sergey Ryzhikov and Randolph Bresnik.
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Norishige Kanai was launched on into space onboard Soyuz MS-07 on December 17,2017 07:21 UTC.
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In January 2018 Norishige Kanai received publicity after mistakenly tweeting that he had grown "as much as 9 cm" taller due to the absence of gravity.