Koichi Wakata Autographs
Koichi Wakata (若田 光一, Wakata Kōichi, born 1 August 1963) is a Japanese engineer and an astronaut working for Axiom Space. He retired from JAXA in 2024. Wakata is a veteran of four NASA Space Shuttle missions, a Russian Soyuz mission, and a long-duration stay on the International Space Station. During a nearly two-decade career in spaceflight, he has logged more than five hundred days in space. During Expedition 39, he became the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station. Wakata flew on the Soyuz TMA-11M/Expedition 38/Expedition 39 long duration spaceflight from 7 November 2013 to 13 May 2014. During this spaceflight he was accompanied by Kirobo, the first humanoid robot astronaut.
Wakata was born in Ōmiya, Saitama, Japan, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1987, a Master of Science degree in Applied Mechanics in 1989, and a Doctorate in Aerospace Engineering in 2004 from Kyushu University. He worked as a structural engineer for Japan Airlines.
Wakata was selected by the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) (now JAXA) as an astronaut candidate in 1992, and trained at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Wakata has held a number of assignments, and during STS-85, Wakata acted as NASDA Assistant Payload Operations Director for the Manipulator Flight Demonstration, a robotic arm experiment for the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station (ISS). In December 2000, he became a NASA robotics instructor astronaut. In July 2006, he served as commander of the 10th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) mission, a seven-day undersea expedition at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Aquarius laboratory located off the coast of Florida. In August 2006, he started flight engineer training for Russian Soyuz spacecraft in preparation for a long-duration stay on the ISS.
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Traded items with a signature of Koichi Wakata
The most expensive item with a signature of Koichi Wakata (KOICHI WAKATA HAND SIGNED 8x10 PHOTO NASA ASTRONAUT SPACE X AUTOGRAPHED COA) was sold in August 2024 for $84.99 while the cheapest item (Koichi Wakata STS-72 Astronaut Signed Cover) found a new owner for $5.00 in July 2010. The month with the most items sold (4) was July 2010 with an average selling price of $14.43 for an autographed item of Koichi Wakata. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in August 2024 with $84.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $9.00 was November 2013. In average, an autographed item from Koichi Wakata is worth $19.99.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Koichi Wakata were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | ASTRONAUT KOICHI WAKATA SIGNED 8X10 JAXA LITHO | $25.00 |  |
| AUTOGRAPH, HAND SIGNED STS-92 JAPANESE ASTRONAUT Koichi Wakata , FUNNY PHOTO | $23.74 | |
| AUTOGRAPH, HAND SIGNED JAPANESE ASTRONAUT Koichi Wakata | $9.50 | |
| AUTOGRAPH, HAND SIGNED JAPANESE ASTRONAUT Koichi Wakata OFFICIAL NASA PHOTO | $26.00 | |
| AUTOGRAPH, HAND SIGNED JAPANESE NEEMO ASTRONAUT Koichi Wakata | $9.50 | |
| JAPANESE AUTOGRAPH, HAND SIGNED ASTRONAUT Koichi Wakata | $14.50 | |
| JAPANESE, SHUTTLE AUTOGRAPH, HAND SIGNED, JAPANESE ASTRONAUT Koichi Wakata | $26.00 | |
| KOICHI WAKATA HAND SIGNED 8x10 PHOTO NASA ASTRONAUT SPACE X AUTOGRAPHED COA | $84.99 | |
| Koichi Wakata signed 8x10 Japanese Lithograph Astronaut SPACE SALE | $15.50 | |
| Koichi Wakata signed NASA 8x10 lithograph SPACE SALE Shuttle Astronaut | $33.77 | |
| NASA Astronaut Koichi Wakata Signed Autographed Photo | $19.99 | |
| SHUTTLE NASA Litho orig.signed Koichi WAKATA, SPACE | $18.50 | |
| Uncommon Original JAXA Astronaut Koichi Wakata Signed Crew Photo 8x10 | $20.00 | |
| Vintage Koichi Wakata NASA Autographed Space Astronaut Signed 8x10 Photo | $13.49 | |
| Vintage Koichi Wakata NASA Gold Autographed Space Astronaut Signed 8x10 Photo | $11.50 | |
